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'Scandalous': Mother-of-11 Heather Frost (pictured) is having a six-bed 'mansion' built for her by the council because she can't cope in her current home




With six bedrooms, three bathrooms, a huge kitchen and the very latest in energy-saving eco-friendly design, it is a house that a great many of us would be very happy to buy and move into.

We’d probably be even happier – and perhaps a little humbled – if it was being specifically built for us and paid for by the taxpayer.

But not Heather Frost.


Far from simply being grateful for her good fortune, the jobless mother of 11 says that if she doesn’t like the house she’ll just tell the council to build her another one.

She is due to move into the property – valued at £400,000 – in July after ‘struggling’ to survive in two adjacent houses in Churchdown, Gloucestershire, which have been joined together by the council.



Her new home will slash water and energy bills with its modern design using natural, locally-sourced materials. Extra large windows will fill it with natural light.

But Miss Frost, 37, who is also a grandmother, said the move is still subject to her approving the two-storey accommodation with its 355sq ft kitchen and dining area.

Neighbours say Frost currently lives with 14 people: all her eleven children, two grandchildren and her partner Jake, who they claim is also unemployed.

‘It’s being built especially for me,’ she said. ‘If I go there and I say to them I don’t like it or it’s too small, then they will just have to build me a bigger one, won’t they?’

Miss Frost says living in her current accommodation has been a nightmare. A minibus and two battered cars were parked on the lawn of the house yesterday.
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Daisy wrote: Gob start reading the fucking Gruaniad ferchrissake!

MailOnline had earlier revealed that the family own a horse, despite Ms Frost claiming benefits for her 11 children. Yesterday 16-year-old Angel defended her mother saying that it is she who pays for the upkeep of the £200-a-month horse named Annie, but failed to explain where she gets the money

Daisy wrote:Points to make here.

1) Local Authorities are OBLIGED by law to accommodate ALL families. Not all do, she is very lucky to live in an area that is currently investing in new social housing.

2) in the whole of the united kingdom there are only 119 families of this size that qualify for social housing.

3) You may have noticed that The Daily Mail loves to demonise the extreme ends of society, it's a scummy rag and deserves dousing in petrol and setting aflame.

Gob start reading the fucking Guardian ferchrissake!

Daisy wrote: Edited to say soz to Gob ... but I blame you for introducing dales to the Daily Fail anyway xx

Leave this woman alone, she is so insignificant in the grand scheme of what is truly fucked in this country...g after the real cunts who avoid paying multiples of millions in taxes instead.

Daisy wrote:1) in actual monetary terms this is costing the LA less than £250,000 - the land was free as it was already owned by the council - and the couple an their family will vacate their current home in two adjoining properties for other families to use. Do you suggest turning them out in the street??

2) There are fewer large families in the UK that can claim rights to social housing than our right wing tabloids would have anyone believe, there are lots more large families and extended families that live in privately owned housing and claim no help from the state.

3) It bugs the crap out of me the Right Wing Press demonising such a fucking insignificant few, when there are a damn site more avoiding paying taxes and corporations carouselling money around the world to avoid corporation tax (I am side eyeing you so fucking hard here Starbucks) in this country.

Leave this woman alone, she is so insignificant in the grand scheme of what is truly fucked in this country...g after the real cunts who avoid paying multiples of millions in taxes instead.

Edited to say soz to Gob ... but I blame you for introducing dales to the Daily Fail anyway xx

Crackpot wrote:Not to the mention the concept that she has a Right to Refuse the home and get it redone.

Guinevere wrote:
I don't think that's true regarding the cost Daisy. You also have to look at the opportunity cost of what else could have been done with the land, and how many other homes the council could have built with that same money. Plus, I never saw what was wrong with her other home? It looked like a bit of a wreck, but where does she have some personal responsibility for keeping it clean and not tearing it apart?

I'm not saying she shouldn't get support, but why does she get to live in a home larger and nicer and more spacious that homes anyone else the council is supporting. Does she get rewarded for having 11 kids? Something seems a bit out of whack to me there.