A relatively well renovated council flat with well designed rooms. Contains a hallway with one bathroom, one bedroom, a living room and a kitchen. Also was a fully furnished flat, which was helpful at the time. Unfortunately the living room is stocked with mainly glass furniture which are easily breakable, some were already broken when I moved in. Also months into the tenancy, I could see that although it looked superficially well done, it wasn’t of high quality as hallway linoleum floor slats moved frequently and exposed the bare wooden floor underneath, the kitchen had holes everywhere in the corners of the floor and the there were and are an abundance of spiders and other insects especially at the front door and outside of the property which was extremely dirty and kept in poor condition.

2 months into the tenancy, discovered an issue with the kitchen taps and the release of hot water which went on for almost a year as it was tried to be fixed by several different engineers. The boiler broke down twice leaving me freezing and unable to shower in the middle of winter that my mother had to drive all the way from London just to provide me with an electric heater (as I am disabled), and there were issues with the electricity and the toilet.

I was told by several engineers that visited the property that the tank and water system are ancient and belong in antiquity which is why they had a tendency to break down every few months. A complete overhaul of the tank and water system would be needed but the landlord unwilling to fork out for such a cost, refused to follow their recommendations.