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Bid to protect tenants from neighbours from hell

Wednesday, 25 January 2012 11:04 AM

A Labour MP has launched a parliamentary bid to force housing association to inform their tenants about neighbours from hell.

Frank Field said his ten-minute rule bill would put tenants on a par with owner-occupiers, who are legally required to tell prospective buyers about neighbour disputes when they sell their property.

The Birkenhead MP added that the bill would stop associations from pulling two "underhand" moves: dumping neighbours from hell next door to people without any warning and from moving unsuspecting good tenants next door to anti-social neighbours.

He said: "The bill would give all tenants the right to be consulted in such circumstances, the right to object and the right to legal redress. It is about trying to legislate to bring about what most of our constituents would regard as fair—to bring housing legislation on side with their gut feeling of what is fair."

The bill would also extend recent changes to the way that social housing is allocated to reward "good citizens" who make a contribution to their community with greater priority.

He said: "A premier league would be formed of those of our constituents who were in a position to have first choice of all the social housing—the best social housing—when it became available."

Field's proposals are unlikely to succeed as ten-minute rule bills rarely become law.

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