Lanarkshire homeowner locked in six-year battle with council over water damage

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An East Kilbride homeowner says she feels she has nowhere left to turn after a six-year row with South Lanarkshire Council over water persistently seeping into and damaging her flat.

Jacqueline Younger bought the second floor flat in Colonsay, St Leonards, in 2016 and says the council failed in its duty as factor of the block to identify and repair faults to the roof a number of years ago.Initially faulty roughcast was blamed and was repaired by the council in 2017, costing residents in the block of the flats over £1000 each, but this did nothing to fix Jacqueline's water ingress problems.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

Get all the news from your area – as well as features, entertainment, sport and the latest on Lanarkshire’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic – straight to your fingertips, 24/7.The free download features the latest breaking news and exclusive stories, and allows you to customise your page to the sections that matter most to you.Head to the App Store and never miss a beat in Lanarkshire - iOS - Android The local authority says an independent chartered surveyor has concluded the cause of the water ingress into Jacqueline's flat is the positioning of her windows - not faults with the roof.It does however concede that roof tiles on the block are "beyond economic repair" and need replaced.An inspection was carried out on behalf of the council in 2020, which revealed the roof needed to be replaced.And the council's position that Jacqueline's windows are to blame has been dismissed by the frustrated homeowner.She told Lanarkshire Live that there was evidence of water getting in prior to her replacing the windows shortly after she bought the flat in 2016, with the cavity wall "soaked