Sheffield houses: Elderly couple desperately bidding on properties as second eviction date looms

By David Walsh
Published 2nd Feb 2024, 13:06 BST
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"They are determined to take the house."

An elderly Sheffield couple are desperately looking for a new home as the days count down to their eviction.

Ruth, aged 68, and Philip Atkin, 72, are frantically bidding on council properties ahead of a second deadline from CHL Mortgages.

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Ruth and Philip Atkin were given a month's extension after the date of eviction from their home of 40 years on Kirton Road, Burngreave. Ruth and Philip Atkin were given a month's extension after the date of eviction from their home of 40 years on Kirton Road, Burngreave.
Ruth and Philip Atkin were given a month's extension after the date of eviction from their home of 40 years on Kirton Road, Burngreave.

They were due to be evicted from their home of 36 years on Kirton Road, Burngreave, on Thursday, January 11. But after their plight appeared in The Star, the finance firm said they could stay another month.

Ruth said since then they had missed out on several properties.

She added: "We put in loads of bids last week without success. They are determined to take the house. Everyone I’ve spoken to says we have to accept that by hook or by crook they will get us out.

"But we haven’t started packing, we’ve got to have something to aim for, we can’t sleep in the car."

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