Braaaaains ...
Y and V went to a baby play class the other day, where V homed in with grim determination on ALL THE TOYS and methodically played with each and every one. She's prettier than all the other babies, too. (Takes break to look at pictures of Victoria
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You put a star when you mentioned the lease, but provided no explanatories. I am therefore not commenting from an informed position. But it does seem strange that an environmental health issue should not be the landlord's responsibility - unless you are creating conditions that could encourage vermin, which I doubt in general and in particular since your relatively recent change in circumstances. If you have done what you could reasonably have been expected to, then there is probably a structural issue. I hardly need tell you that vermin infestation is potentially prejudicial to your health.
I remember when my sister had a serious problem with mold at her sarf London place. The landlord refused to do anything, and eventually she called in the local council, which sent an environmental health inspector (officer?) who immediately declared it unfit for human habitation and served the owner with notice that he had to take action to make the property fit for safe human habitation. In the interests of full disclosure, I should mention that my sister now lives elsewhere.
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There's more of a story there. We did have an infestation - two, in fact, one mice and one rats - in one place in Golders Green, upstairs from several restaurants. Each time the landlord had a 24/7 exterminator service there in hours without us asking.
It looks like that is the benefit of living in London, however. I spoke to Hertsmere Council about it, and their response was that it was up to us to pay. The landlord might pay. Our lease pretty clearly says that if the infestation is our fault, then we have to pay ... but the landlord and the agent who wrote the lease have "clarified" that. Basically, any kind of infestation, no matter the cause, is entirely our problem.
So it looks like the Hertsmere council policy is that it's not enough of an environmental health issue for them to intervene.
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