HC Deb 02 August 1978 vol 955 cc899-900

10.17 p.m.

Mr. Eddie Loyden (Liverpool, Garston)

Mr. Speaker, I beg to ask leave to present a petition on behalf of members of my constituency living in the Netherley area of Garston. The people in that area have for a considerable time suffered extremely bad housing conditions. I support the pressures being placed on the local authority, in view of the patient way in which the tenants have acted with regard to this matter. I therefore support this petition.

The petition reads: To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled. The Humble Petition of the friends of Netherley (Liverpool) flatdwellers on their behalf, Sheweth That the condition of the flats and maisonettes at Netherley is such as to constitute a bad state of disrepair and that as a result they are a danger to life and unfit for human habitation. Wherefore your Petitioners pray that your Honourable House take note of this Petition, which is a request that the flats and maisonettes at Netherley be demolished and that houses be built in their place, these houses to be built in accordance with the code of standards laid down by the relevant Acts and not to the standards to which the flats and maisonettes were built. And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will every pray. There are 15,000 signatures to a petition similar to that which has been worded, and I hope that the House pays due attention to the petitioners who have brought this very serious problem before the House.

To lie upon the Table.