Swansea family’s nightmare over council flat anti-social behaviour

Ms Richards, who has a two-year-old son and a one-year-old daughter, was heavily pregnant when she moved to the third-floor flat with her partner Rhys Davey nearly three years ago.

But she said she has found drug needles in the block and that urine and sometimes excrement were left in communal areas. Although the council swept the areas, she said she cleaned them with bleach on a weekly basis.

“I don’t want my son accidentally putting his hand in pee,” she said.

As well as the anti-social behaviour, it has been a struggle taking her children up and down 42 stairs with shopping on her own when her partner is at work and she has back pain, she said.

“I can no longer cope – my patience has gone now, it really has,” she said. “I just want a happy, quiet life.”