UNHAPPY residents of the Cour du Parc tower block have the support of a former Housing member. Deputy Barry Brehaut (pictured), now on the Health and Social Services board, said that Housing could no longer ignore tenants of the property.

This follows Tuesday’s front-page story about a resident who is asking to be moved as the two-bed accommodation is not suitable for her, her partner and their two children.

‘Although there has been considerable focus on the Bouet in recent years, and for good reason, I think that regrettably Housing, myself included, has ignored a problem literally much closer to home.  It is not the least bit family- friendly. If the lift is broken, and it is a lot of the time, residents have to struggle up several flights.  Add to that the absence of green space and somewhere to keep a bike or children’s play things, then it becomes a very unattractive place to live in.’

Many living in the tower block shared Deputy Brehaut’s views.