Matt Allwright visits a house that looks as if the landlord is following council rules - until he gets into the back garden. Housing officers help a family and their dogs get back on track after a devastating house fire, and a homeless man is given a new start.
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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 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 10
Matt Allwright hits the streets in Havering on the trail of suspected tenancy fraud. In Newcastle, housing officer Laura encounters a sticky situation when she investigates an e ...
04-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 3 - Cutdowns: Episode 9
A family living off-grid are helped to stay in their remote home, and Matt Allwright meets the ex-serviceman whose rented house is so damp it has started sprouting mushrooms.
10-11-2016
BBC 1
Series 2 - Cutdowns: Episode 14
Matt Allwright has teamed up with housing officers in Sandwell as the programme meets a part-time musician on the brink of being evicted. In Oxford, we see first hand the length ...
11-08-2016
BBC 1
Series 2 - Cutdowns: Episode 16
Matt Allwright inspects a flat conversion in Clacton-on-Sea with a serious damp problem, things get heated in Oxford as a tenant struggles to leave his dangerous flat, and in Ke ...
15-08-2016
BBC 1
Series 2 - Cutdowns: Episode 11
Matt visits a household where the landlady's post-it notes have become a sticking point. In the Lake District, officers inspect the empire of a landlord king.
08-08-2016
BBC 1