Family's home axed (From Stroud News and Journal)

Family's home axed

A FAMILY of six is facing a bleak future in a bed and breakfast after a decision by Stroud District Council to pull down their home.

Jack Everett, his partner Emma and their four children have been told they must move out of the ecologically-friendly wooden home of more than ten years, because they did not have planning permission to build it.

Mr Everett has now asked the council's housing department whether it has suitable accommodation available for himself, Emma and children Saffron (16), Lawrence (14), Felix (3) and Oscar (8 months).

But he said he was told there was none apart from bed and breakfast. "They have made no allowance for the fact that we have been here for part of the community for a long time," Mr Everett told the News & Journal. "They have decided that we are a subspecies.

"I don't know anyone who would throw four children out in this weather." Council housing officials will meet him this week to discuss his housing needs. Mr Everett was locked out of the development control committee meeting which was held behind closed doors on Tuesday.

For more, see this weeks SNJ