A MOTHER who was forced to move from her council house claims the alternative she was offered was in a "disgusting state of disrepair".
Sue Savage, 49, was moved to Trym Side in Sea Mills after the council told her that her old house in Lawrence Weston had to be knocked down due to concrete cancer.
The house, in Astry Close, which Ms Savage and her family lived in for 20 years, is one of nearly 600 PRC (pre-cast reinforced concrete) homes in the north of the city that Bristol City council needs to demolish, repair or rebuild.
The PRC homes were built in the 1920's and after 1946 using non-traditional construction methods.
After learning she would be re-homed in a property in Sea Mills Ms Savage thought her problems were over.
However when she arrived at the house she says she was "disgusted" by what she found.
"The house wasn't finished," she said.
"There was no heating, gas or electricity ? it wasn't fit to live in.
"There was jagged glass in the windows ? they only moved metal sheets off the windows when we arrived.
"The stairs were covered in bits of cardboard and nails ? it was filthy.
"After we'd been there a little while a pipe burst and flooded the kitchen floor ? that's when I got really upset."
Ms Savage, who lives with her three sons, said she did not want to stay at the house but had nowhere else to go.
She told the Post an inspector arrived at the house on Friday and said someone else would come to inspect the house today after she complained.
Her daughter Beckiy Joyce, 26, told the Post that the removal company said they had never moved somebody into a property in such a bad state of disrepair.
But Bristol City Council told the Evening Post that everything was in order when Ms Savage moved in.
A spokesman said: "As far as we were aware when we met with the tenant on the day of her move and subsequently, the next day, she was happy with the arrangements agreed with her.
"She would have been aware that screens were in place at the property, because of break-ins in the area, and a contractor attended on the day of the move and removed the screens and re-glazed the windows.
"Gas and electricity would have been available. However, it is the responsibility of the tenant to arrange for the connection of gas and electricity to their property. She would have been advised of this in advance.
"We are confident that the level of service, which tenants have a right to expect from us, were met, and everything was in order."
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