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A landlord built a 27metre extension in his garden without getting permission from the council. He converted the outbuilding into five separate bed-sitting rooms that played home to seven tenants.

The council advised him to remove the extension, but he didn't act upon it. He appealed in 2002, and lost his case. He still didn't do anything about it. Din Dayal Verma and his son Ashok Kumar Verma resisted planning officers' requests for nearly six years, taking their case to the High Court and repeatedly ignoring the council's enforcement orders.


Now he's been fined £20,000. He could still face further prosecution if he fails to comply with the council's demands.

What an idiot. Read the full story here:

http://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/newsbct/display.var.1689499.0.breeze_block_landlord_fined_20_000.php

Not sure - he might not be that much of an idiot.

Let's say that for each of the five bedsits he makes £200 a month. That makes him twelve grand a year ... so since 2000 he's made over eighty grand. Even if you take out building costs, he's made a lot more than he would have leaving that money in a high interest savings account over the last seven years.


V

I knew you'd stick up for him, V!

Hahaha why?

I'm not saying its right ... more that if the council want to discourage it they'll have to penalise him with a fine that actually makes it unprofitable for him to violate the regulations!!


If he's been sending that money back (? poor guesswork from his name) to India and even investing in property out there with it, he can claim bankrupcy over here and probably go back and retire now.

V

Stop giving him ideas, you devil!!!

Putting his financial position aside, building an extension without permission is just wrong. And the fact you did the math and made it even clearer to understand how much money he made could have potentially made....makes me sick!

I wish I was more corrupt some times =[

LOL

It is wrong, you're right. And if I lived next door to him his tenants might have developed some serious water-bourne illnesses by now.

The problem is, people who choose "right" above "easy" are few and far between ... and often folks have all kinds of ingenious ways of convincing themselves (incorrectly) that their misbehaviour is justified given their own personal situation.

I do wonder why they didn't charge him more. Surely they could've done the maths themselves.

Here's another example of my twisted morality that might restore your faith; recently I watched the channel 4 documentary "Ghosts" about the Chinese illegal immigrants who died cockle picking in Morecombe Bay. The woman featured spent six months in transit to the UK, including spending some time screwed into a hidden compartment in the back of a truck. She spoke no English, was offered jobs selling herself for sex, lived in bad conditions and was basically skanked by the people who brought her in - Chinese, I hasten to add. She did it to try and pay for her son's schooling back in China.

Now, what happened in Morecombe Bay was tragic. If the events were (as portrayed in the film) partially the result of assaults by the local community who resented other people "taking their cockles" then someone needs to line those a$$holes up and shoot them. They're not anybody's cockles unless someone is motivated enough to pick them - they're just there. But, at the end of the film after the credits it rolls up on screen "The British Government refuse to provide aid to the families back home in China".

WTF?

These guys - perhaps understandably - enter our country illegally to try and improve their lives. You can't blame people for trying to better themselves, but its clear there was no misunderstanding about their entry being illegal. Then they come to no good, because being illegal they're not permitted to work in this country, so are only able to find work that isn't protected by the safeguards legal worker's taxes pay for. How on earth is it down to the British Government to reimburse families of those who circumvented all our restrictions and broke our laws in the first place to get here???

They took a chance; I respect their enterprising nature ... but they knew the risks, and it didn't pay off. Sh!t happens.


V

I'm all for people trying to make better lives for themselves. If that means someone has to come into this country illegally in attempt to better their life, I have no problems with that at all. I don't understand people that say, "immigrants are coming in and taking our jobs"

The people that usually say that are the people that are too lazy to get jobs, and refuse to accept jobs they consider to be below them! Then WTF do they expect?

Anyways, keeping things in context, that landlord obviously had money, because he built a 27metre extension! The bastard

Language please propertyfag !

cheers

simhar
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Sorry, Sinhar!

I know how sensitive you are to swear words! I need to tame my tongue