NOT ANOTHER DREADED WINTER....

PRESS STATEMENT

RIVERSIDE PROTEST:

NOW AN ACTION GROUP

The  solar panel protest tenants of Longtown(Cumbria) this week plan to form an action group to fight  for proper heating in their homes following two years of failed complaints to their landlord, Riverside Housing Association.

The action group will come together at a meeting in Longtown Community Centre tomorrow (May 15). An estimated sixty tenants who cannot afford turn on their heating because of rocketing fuel bills are expected to support  the new group.

The meeting is being organised  by Carlisle Tenants` and Residents` Federation which is backing the tenants. A Federation spokesman said today:” These tenants are getting no help from Riverside. And they have no voice.

“Riverside`s solar panel scheme  for 175 homes which caused all the trouble  now seems to everyone in Longtown to have been  a fast-buck cowboy operation . And Riverside cannot or will not put things right.

“An action group will step up the protests. For a start there is likely to be questions for the four Longtown candidates in the city council elections later this month. The city council is responsible for housing. Why has the city council not done more to help?

“This fiasco has dragged on for far too long. The tenants are distressed and angry because they have gone without heat for two winters. A third winter would be intolerable.”

Community Voice Carlisle is the blog of Carlisle Tenants` and Residents` Federation. Information about the Federation is on the first post of this blog, dated March 25 2013