Reassurance for young mum who refused move to another 'damp-ridden' house in Skegness

Platform Housing have agreed "additional works to ensure the property is of a high lettable standard" after grandma Helen Hobson appealed for help when her daughter was offered an 'unsuitable' home in Skegness.

Mrs Hobson, who is also a Platform Housing tenant, told the Standard: "I wouldn't house my dog in it." She explained her daughter has been living in an inadequate damp old people's property in Tennyson Gardens in Horncastle and both of her young children have chest issues, with one referred to the Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham.

A number of images she provided showed damp on the walls and windows and broken fences in an overgrown garden filled with rubbish.

"My daughter has lived with her two children in an old people's property in Horncastle," she said.

"It's damp and both children have chest conditions with the baby being treated at Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham.

"I believe it is because of the damp and my daughter has been asking to move for two years now.

"Before she went on maternity leave her work was in Skegness and that is where her boyfriend is and so that is where she wants to move to.

"But the property she was offered was just not fit to live in."