I couldn't find place to house our family of EIGHT so I moved them us into 'ex-Coldplay' TOUR BUS to avoid homelessness | IFJ6K2C | 2024-03-25 12:08:01
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A FUMING dad couldn't find a home for his family of eight – so he moved them into an 'ex-Coldplay' tour bus to avoid homelessness.
Antoni Taylor and Emma Heard, both 30, have been struggling to discover a property that might accommodate their 5 youngsters, and Antoni's older sister Hannah who has cerebral palsy.
The dad-of-five has slammed Cornwall Council after he claimed officers left his household vulnerable to homelessness.
Antoni and Emma have an excessive amount of cash saved to qualify for social housing – however they don't earn enough to be permitted for a mortgage.
The carer advised Cornwall Live: "As a result of I'm Hannah's full-time carer my employment standing isn't nice so property brokers gained't even contact me."
Renting plans have been also squashed after the devoted brother did not find a residence with acceptable disability entry.
Antoni, initially from Helston, got here to the conclusion he must construct a property himself.
However the dad has blasted Cornwall Council for taking too lengthy to answer his planning software – as his household continue to reside in two former Coldplay tour buses.
COLDPLAY CRIB
Antoni even thinks they have been the same buses by which band icon Chris Martin and glam ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow broke-up.
The buses have been kitted out with a boiler, scorching water and heating – while couple's five youngsters every have their very own bedrooms.
They solely pay £400 a month, while an appropriate residence for the clan would value them an eye-watering £1,250 per thirty days.
Antoni forked out a whopping £35,000 to purchase and rework the buses.
They have been pressured to dip into cash handed down in his mother's inheritance after she sadly passed away from a sudden brain aneurysm in 2019.
'It's disgraceful'
But, the family have now been hit by a recent blow as the landlord they lease the land from has issued them a no-fault eviction discover.
The landlord has given Antoni permission to construct his own residence on a special parcel of land he owns in Redruth – providing he gets planning permission.
A annoyed Antoni stated: "We don't want social housing help, I simply need to build on this perfectly suitable land.
"It might save me £30,000 to £40,000 and the council gained't have any person like me kicking off to them.
"It's disgraceful that I can't do this."
He blasted the council for handing housing developers land for luxurious houses.
"Who can afford that? Who may even afford a £200,000 house right now?," added the dad-of-five.
His software is to build an "reasonably priced self-build property" that may have a Section 106 settlement, but Antoni claimed it hasn't been given the inexperienced mild as a result of he has been born and raised within the Helston area.
"Then I'm simply making an attempt to construct a home for my household and I'm not allowed," he continued.
"I do know so many people living in vans in laybys because there's nowhere to go."
The "furious" dad also spoke of struggling individuals shifting again in with their mother and father.
Antoni has been preventing for planning permission since July final yr and recons he's shelled out £12,000 in the process.
Cornwall Council rejected his first software, and the carer is ready to listen to back on the second.
Speaking about his sister Hannah, Antoni stated she is likely one of the "most weak" individuals of their county – however he feels the "council doesn't give a cr**."
"If I might simply build a home for my family the council wouldn't have someone like me kicking off at them."
A Cornwall Council spokesperson stated: "If anybody is threatened with homelessness, we'll work with them to attempt to forestall that from occurring.
"Beneath homelessness laws the Council has a duty to offer short-term lodging to sure households and we work with them on a Personalised Housing Plan."
The council added that they have been sympathetic to individuals in the same position as Antoni amid "excessive and unprecedented pressures" on housing.
Officers additionally said anybody who has submitted a planning software and has been rejected can attraction.
The Sun On-line contacted Cornwall Council for remark.
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