Matt Allwright visits the home of an elderly lady, which has been untouched for 30 years. He finds a landlord who claims his tenant's potentially dangerous living conditions are acceptable because she's only a lodger. A blind couple with nine children search for a home.
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Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 4
Matt Allwright gets a surprise in Stroud when an eviction takes a shocking turn. In Jaywick, things turn violent for housing officers Ian and Rob as they investigate a fly-tippi ...
07-06-2019
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 3
Matt Allwright catches up with an old friend but discovers that although the state of his property has improved, his behaviour might inadvertently be putting his neighbours in d ...
04-06-2019
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 2
Matt Allwright helps a housing officer assist a tenant whose hoarding habit is threatening to spiral out of control, causing problems for both himself and his neighbours. An esc ...
03-06-2019
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 1
Matt Allwright joins housing officer Andrew Weavers in Suffolk and discovers a tenant who, for the past five years, has become a prisoner in his own bedroom. And in Havering, th ...
31-05-2019
BBC 1
Series 3 - Cutdowns: Episode 8
Matt Allwright visits an overcrowded property where lives are at risk, and talks become heated on a street when antisocial behaviour is tackled.
18-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 20
Matt takes a trip to north London to meet a pair of tenants in danger of becoming isolated from their local community. But can a volunteer lunch club help provide a solution? An ...
17-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 19
Matt meets an ageing couple in Wiltshire who are struggling to remain independent in their own home. In Stroud, housing officers help a tenant with a new kitchen, while in Londo ...
16-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 18
Matt is on the beat in Havering with the council's fraud team. In Tendring, housing officers are faced with fly-tipping that is threatening the safety of local residents. Matt m ...
15-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 17
In Croydon, Matt joins housing officer Francis to tackle a derelict house and garden that is threatening to engulf a neighbour's property. In Chichester, two families are hoping ...
14-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 15
Matt Allwright is in Peterborough with housing officers on a visit to a tenant whose recent chip pan fires are causing problems for his neighbours. In Wiltshire, a young mum-to- ...
11-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 2
Matt Allwright helps a housing officer assist a tenant whose hoarding habit is threatening to spiral out of control, causing problems for both himself and his neighbours. An esc ...
03-06-2019
BBC 1
Series 3 - Cutdowns: Episode 14
Consumer programme presented by Matt Allwright. The council visits a property where they believe nine people have managed to squeeze in, and there is council help for a grandfat ...
22-06-2017
BBC 1
Series 3 - Cutdowns: Episode 7
Matt Allwright visits a converted house whose landlord isn't playing by the rules, and housing officers smell a rat in a crumbling property.
08-11-2016
BBC 1
Series 3 - Cutdowns: Episode 11
Matt Allwright joins forces with the council and police to investigate a landlord's conversion of unlawful flats, and housing enforcers uncover a hoard of problems when they vis ...
23-06-2017
BBC 1