Disabled woman wins £5,000 after two years in windowless hotel basement room

Disabled woman wins £5,000 after two years in windowless hotel basement room

A disabled woman has been awarded £5,000 after a North London council housed her in “unsuitable” temporary accommodation in a basement room of a hotel for more than two years. The resident complained that there were no windows in the room and she had no access to a fridge to store her medication. An investigation by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGO) found that Brent Council was at fault for delays to processing the woman’s hom…