Tags for Forum Posts: casework, effingham road, illegal conversion
An update. Nearly 2 years since the original application for a certificate of lawfulness was turned down, the fight may finally be over. The owner appealed the refusal of a COL and last year, that appeal was turned down (and the owner forced to pay the council's costs because of his unreasonable conduct in the way he conducted the appeal). The council then served a new enforcement notice. And the owner then appealed this enforcement notice. Yesterday, the Planning Inspectorate issued its decision on that appeal and upheld the enforcement notice (and once again stung the owner for costs for conducting an unreasonable appeal). He now has 3 months (I think) to comply with the enforcement notice and turn it into a single house again before facing prosecution.
At the same time, people who submitted evidence against the owner received menacing letters threatening them with all kinds of retribution if they didn't withdraw their evidence. Thankfully, they just ignored them.
However, I believe that the owner is now going to try to appeal again against the original COL appeal which he lost. Based on the 2 appeal decisions so far, he's fighing a lost cause but then these illegal developers don't half hate giving up their ill-gotten gains.
No doubt I'll be back with an update in an other 6-12 months.
They should have reported his menacing letters to the police. They must do so if he does it again.
Well done for continuing to chase it.
Has he actually been paying the costs or has he just been ordered to do so? I assume if the company is registered in Cyprus it might be harder to actually get hold of the money.
This is amazing. At which point will the appeals stop? Or can he just keep on doing it for years - and take the earnings from the flats in the meantime?
I can't believe no one reported the letters to the police! And that they got them in the first place is absolutely disgusting.
OK, letter campaign anyone? Where do we start? Who can we flood with complaints?
They could do a Haringey special
I've not watched it but will be doing so on catch up.
Which town/area did the programme feature?
Ha ha, I agree.It would have to be a six part series! But seriously John Snow did invite us all to tell all about slum landlords in our area. Take a look on C4 web site.
How depressing. How does this all fit with the new Harringay 'quality' approach to HMOs which I must confess I'm feeling very unimpressed by from all the discussion there has been on this and other recent posts. Is David Lammy still interested in this does anyone know ... Nora was doing some great work, but I'm not aware that it's been picked up on by anyone else.
On the C4 prog, thanks for the link VIX, really interesting - will have a look. I've pasted text associated with the programme if anyone else is interested (will see what the twitter link comes up with too).
In this undercover investigation, Jon Snow reports on the return of the slum landlord in 21st-century Britain. At a time when more people than ever are having to rent privately, unable to get on the property ladder, Dispatches reveals the shocking conditions in which tenants are forced to live.
Dispatches sends an undercover reporter to work for a rogue property empire in the north of England. He reveals a world of forced evictions, slum properties in dangerous condition, and routine bullying of tenants. Jon confronts the man raking in millions while his tenants suffer.
Dispatches also exposes an extraordinary new phenomenon: thousands of people living in illegal sheds, transforming parts of London into slums. A second undercover reporter lives in a squalid, illegal shed in London, paying £40 a week rent to another rogue landlord.
Dispatches lifts the lid on a world where unscrupulous landlords are exploiting the most vulnerable people in society and getting away with it.
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