A FAMILY of seven has described how they have been living in a house of hell for a year.

The Smiths, of Turin Court, invited the Advertiser into their Aster-managed property to show the level of disrepair their house had fallen into through no fault of their own.

Problems including leaks, flooding and damage caused by the damp have plagued the family, who have two children with disabilities.

The issues have been raging for the last 12 months and have rendered the household uninhabitable.

The family has now moved out of the £220-a-week, four-bedroomed, three-storey property into temporary accommodation for around five weeks.

Mum Rebecca, 32, and her husband, former soldier Dean, 30, have now hit out. She said: “It ‘s been going on for a year. The children’s health has been suffering and so has ours.

“I’ve been constantly backwards and forwards with Aster. It’s the kind of thing you’d expect in Victorian Britain, but not in 2015.

“Two of my children have asthma and eczema and we have mould in a lot of rooms, including black mould.

I feel as though I’m having a nervous breakdown.

“I’ve lost sleep, I’m suffering with chest pains and chronic daily migraines.

I don’t want a palace, just somewhere fit to live in.”

The older children Nicola, 11, Daniel, 10, and Kayleigh, seven, were moved to their father’s house in Tidworth, while the youngest two Sophie, three, and Emily, two, had to move to Bournemouth to stay with grandparents.

A spokesman for Aster said: “We’re continuing to work closely with the family and have arranged temporary accommodation for them to move into while repair works at their home are completed.

“We’ve advised them we will put them up in B&B accommodation in the short-term while we ready one of our vacant properties for them to live in while their home is repaired.”

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