In Hadleigh, it owns about 40 homes, with 26 concentrated on the two worst-affected streets, Mount Zion and Seaview Terrace. Last year the charity announced it was constructing a new headquarters for itself at a cost of £32m. The Salvation Army receives donations and legacies from the public of more than £100m a year and owns more than 1,700 residential properties, the majority of which are used by its own officers. The length of time the Salvation Army failed to deal with the complaints raises serious questions about the governance and conduct of one of the UK’s highest profile charities. The Guardian and ITV News understands that conditions within tenants’ homes have not improved since the council’s warning three years ago. ![]() ![]() They include risks of “death, permanent paralysis, permanent loss of consciousness, loss of a limb or serious fractures”. The letter said he had identified “significant housing disrepair in Salvation Army properties” in the borough including “category one and two hazards”.Ĭategory one hazards are the most serious housing problems. ![]() In 2019, a local environmental health officer at Castle Point council wrote to the Salvation Army and described the charity’s handling of the situation in Hadleigh as a “sordid mess”. Later, in 2018, the charity left up to 40 tenants with the impression they were about to be evicted, instead of paying to correct the problems. Tenants say the problems with the properties were first documented in late 2014.
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