A tenant is calling on Merton Council to move her from a damp infested flat.

Samantha May is desperate to be rehoused from her South Wimbledon home which was examined by the council in December and last week described by a surveyor as “uninhabitable”.

But the 39-year-old mum of one is still waiting to be moved out of the home in Becket Close on the High Path Estate - and she said living in such an environment was pushing her to breaking point.

“I get into bed and it’s wet and the frame is rotting - I’m better off under a blanket outside my house. My daughter’s asthma is through the roof.”

But the council’s head of housing said that Miss May had refused to let workmen try and fix the problem or be moved into temporary housing.

Miss May traces the damp back to heavy flooding in Colliers Wood in October 2003. She said the problem has been growing ever since, but became significantly worse in the last few months.

She claims the council surveyor who saw the flat last week described it as the “worst case of damp he’s ever seen” and advised her to do everything she could to find new accommodation.

Jo Williams, the council’s head of housing, admitted the case had “not gone as well as it should have” and more should have been done when the problem was first seen last month.

But she added Miss May had rejected a move into emergency accommodation and had said she was not interested in different properties offered to her.

She said the council were trying hard to find new housing for the tenant, but a waiting list of around 6,000 people meant this could not be done immediately. She urged Miss May to consider “all the different options available to her”.

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