With chunks of plaster hanging from the ceiling, rotting floorboards and mould growing on the walls, it looks more like the inner-city property of a slum landlord
It may have royal connections, but Stephen Warr’s rented home is certainly no palace.
He describes the damp, dilapidated cottage owned by the Crown Estate as “unfit for animals”.
With chunks of plaster hanging from the ceiling, rotting floorboards and mould growing on the walls, it looks more like the inner-city property of a slum landlord.
Yet the taxpayer is forking out £484 a month in housing benefit for the former farm worker to live there.
The cottage is owned by the vast £8.6 billion Crown Estate , which will earn the Queen around £39 million this year.
The Mirror has revealed that the estate received £38,539 in housing benefit from West Somerset Council alone last year.
The true figure will be far higher as the sprawling estate owns properties across a string of councils and the figure from West Somerset does not include benefit cash that goes direct to tenants.
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He describes the damp, dilapidated cottage owned by the Crown Estate as “unfit for animals”.
With chunks of plaster hanging from the ceiling, rotting floorboards and mould growing on the walls, it looks more like the inner-city property of a slum landlord.
Yet the taxpayer is forking out £484 a month in housing benefit for the former farm worker to live there.
The cottage is owned by the vast £8.6 billion Crown Estate , which will earn the Queen around £39 million this year.
The Mirror has revealed that the estate received £38,539 in housing benefit from West Somerset Council alone last year.
The true figure will be far higher as the sprawling estate owns properties across a string of councils and the figure from West Somerset does not include benefit cash that goes direct to tenants.
Read more...
