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The Audit Commissions 5 year investigation into the sell-off found the process was riddled with illegality from start to finish. Unlawful pro sell-off propaganda costing £500,000, unlawful disposal of open-space land worth £2.6m, unlawful post sell-off rent rises running into tens of millions of pounds, the £79m received from the sell-off an unlawful receipt in the council's accounts etc., Outstanding issues include thousands of homes contaminated with potentially dangerous asbestos eg: asbestos artex ceilings, asbestos vinyl floor tiles, hot air heating and meter cupboards, damaged and disturbed over the years with improvements/repairs and tenants being ripped off with unjust interest payments of over £6m pa out of their rents (£90m + to date) with Curo Group debts now standing at a staggering £200m. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.188.212.180 (talk) 17:08, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Local campaigner[edit]

Local campaigner Alexander Johnston did not claim the sell-off of our homes by B&NES Council to Somer Community Housing Trust was unlawful Mr Johnston is quite rightly drawing attention to the Audit Commission judgements which state:

1) "the £79m receipt from the sell-off was an unlawful entry in the Council's accounts" 2) the £500,000 pro sell-off propaganda campaign mounted by B&NES Council was "scaremongering... and unlawful expenditure" 3) the disposal by B&NES Council of £6m of open-space land to Somer Housing for nil consideration was an "unlawful disposal." 4) Somer Comunity Housing Trust post sell-off additional rent increases for new kitchens, windows, bathrooms and toilets are "unlawful rent increases."

This is not Mr Alexander Johnston claming anything this is the Audit Commission passing legal judgement on the matter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.254.58.223 (talk) 11:11, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please provide citations. I can't find anything to confirm these allegations on the WWW, although there is a comment by Alexander Johnston along similar lines on an unrelated story in Inside Housing. The cited press article says "he has continued to regard the deal which went ahead in 1999 as unlawful" and IMHO the summary line that I just added into the Wikipedia article gives due weight to the matter. – Fayenatic London 14:00, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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House-building[edit]

Hi - first, full disclosure, I work for Curo so I'm not going to edit the Curo page unless it's a simple correction (eg I just changed Homes Communities Agency to Homes England). I notice the Curo page talks a lot about Foxhill and Mulberry Park but very little about the other house-building that's going on. There's more info about the many other development schemes here https://www.curo-group.co.uk/house-building/schemes/ Splatt4000 (talk) 11:22, 6 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]