High-priority elderly resident in 13-YEAR social housing wait

AN older Wrexham resident in the county's second-highest priority band for social housing has been waiting 13 years for a property.

- By ALEC DOYLE Local Democracy Reporter

The individual whose identity is unknown but who is over 65 was first put on the housing waiting list on April 25, 2012.

In 2018 they were moved up to band two the second-highest of Wrexham County Borough Council's five priority levels.

A Freedom of Information request has revealed that in Wrexham there are 50 people in the county borough's top two priority bands who are over 65 and have been waiting for social housing for between one and five years.

In addition there are seven residents over 65 in those top two priority groups who have been waiting more than five years to be housed or rehoused.

These include Theresa Batty, an 82-year-old grandmother living in a social housing bungalow in Ponciau.

She has been waiting since 2018 to be rehoused due to persistent damp and black mould which she says has made her breathing, heart and skin conditions worse.