A tenant forced to survive on ready-made meals for eight months because the council left them with no working kitchen will be paid nearly £6,500 in compensation .

Westminster City Council has agreed to pay the tenant, who has not been identified, £2,803.71 compensation for their kitchen troubles on top of £3,675 to cover the costs of purchasing ready-made food.

The £2,803.71 figure covers 25per cent of the rent paid for the 31 weeks from May 2024 when the complaint was first made to December 2024 when the kitchen works were completed. However the kitchen was not functioning from April 2024 when they identified an issue with a cooker socket.

It's compensation for the time the resident was left without a functioning kitchen, the council's poor complaint handling, missed appointments an

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