Conservative ministers have announced that evictions of private housing tenants can resume from 24th August.

Sutton has seen an increase of 107% in households presenting as ‘at risk of rough sleeping’.

Housing charity Shelter warned that an additional 230,000 people across the country are now in arrears who were not in arrears before lockdown began in March.

Lib Dem councillor Jayne McCoy, Chair of Sutton Council’s Housing Committee has blasted government’s decision as “incomprehensible”.