With their homes flooded after heavy rain angry local authority tenants occupy Bray Town Hall.
A group of local authority tenants stage a sit in the Bray town hall to protest after floods in their housing estate . Heavy rainfall saw water sweep into their homes when the drainage system failed to cope with the downpour.
The 25 families from the Oldcourt Estate known locally as 'White City' are adamant they will not leave until Bray Urban Council finds them alternative local authority housing.
Built in 1974, the council estate has 240 prefabricated houses made partly from wood.
At the best of times, they say they've had bad drainage and damp problems.
The Oldcourt residents have repeatedly asked the council for alternative housing. Their chief spokesperson and protest leader Colman Sharkey says the group is tired of empty promises.
Everything on that estate is being looked into since it was built.
Kevin Conway, the Bray Town Engineer does do not accept the housing scheme is unsuitable and
Not all the residents in this estate are dissatisfied with these houses.
However resident Terry Cole has been trying for two years to get a transfer. She does not believe the Council is interested in the houses,
They were just, throw them up at very short notice, and nobody bothered after that really.
The sole form of heating for the housing scheme is electricity. Most of the residents cannot afford electric central heating.
There was no thought given, they’re not a working man’s house.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 2 June 1981.
