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I fully concur with what John Dunlop is saying about a CAB and have said so in my election leaflet for Ayr North as an Independent.

Iain Tulloch, Seagate, Prestwick, KA9 1AY

It was at this council meeting that I first met John and we were both there to support the proposal into the feasibility of a CAB in South Ayrshire three to four years ago.

Unbelievable that the SNP/Lab group shut down all discussion of a CAB and the study. He is right, I already know of just one very real example of the many who are in the private rental sector where rents are very much higher than the council rents. They are now seeking council houses as they are struggling to pay private rents. They are in a twofold catch 22. Can’t pay, debt or lose your private rental and the council can’t offer you a council house because you made yourself homeless and the waiting list I read is 1328 and an estimated eight years they were told.

There will be an almighty social problem and a shortage of affordable council housing along with all the spiralling problems associated with not enough money.

Surprisingly in my example they also had problems with the boiler and having a recent baby along with a landlord not doing much.

They tried the SAC route and spoke to a phone message who would call them back and never did, how familiar is that? So they phoned and managed, to get the sympathy of a very nice lady in East Ayrshire CAB who immediately resolved the situation for them by sending the landlord a letter. Build affordable housing in all the spaces behind the High Street to repopulate the town and have a permanent footfall in the town centre and a whole host of smaller venues and shops will pop up provided the rates are affordable. No-one wants this pool. And by the way, SAC have finally admitted that there was never a survey done into the leisure centre creating more footfall as was claimed time and time again. Hoodwinked as in most of their so called consultations. Why, why why??? Andrew Russell, Ayr