ELDERLY residents have launched a campaign about the quality of care in their sheltered accommodation.
The Centenary Court inhabitants are frustrated that their long list of complaints are being ignored, including a number of security problems.
They have formed a committee to lobby their local MP and persuade Luton Borough Council, who manage the accommodation in Wedgewood Road, to improve their living conditions.
Richard Winsborough, 65, who has lived in the court for three years said: “I have lived my whole life in private accommodation and I have never ever in my life had the sorts living in this so-called sheltered accommodation I’m in now. There are drunks and lunatics who need proper care, they shouldn’t be here. The warden has no powers to do anything.
“The CCTV doesn’t work and we have complained to the council - they said they can’t fix it because of lack of funding. We are vulnerable old people and the complete incompetence of the people in charge is astounding - the council just don’t care.”
Residents pay around £100 a week for the sheltered accommodation and the ad listing for one of the rooms on the Luton Borough Council website says the property ‘offers independent living for those aged over 60 with the reassurance of an on-site manager and excellent security for residents.”
The residents wrote in their complaints: “The scheme manager is not on site full time, he is hardly ever here because of other duties elsewhere. If it would be a high level of security, how come then there has been four break ins within 18 months?”
A Luton Borough Council spokesperson said: “Some concerns about security and other issues at Centenary Court were raised so we have organised a meeting with the residents to discuss these in detail and to agree how they can be addressed.”