howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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#2
The fine could possibly be one months rent loss if he has more than one property in Folkestone Road, £50,000 might have been more appropriate and acted as a deterrent.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#3
This is just the tip of the ice cube, just a look at the rubbish generated tells us that there must be intense overcrowding.
We don't even know whether he is still carrying on the same way with this particular family, i'm told that in many of those properties 2 or more families are sharing one small kitchen.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#4
I am so pleased to hear this, but agree that the fine should/could have been much higher.
I (and Howard of course) have been shouting for ages about overcrowding and awful conditions many of these people live in, but rarely complain; there's also the amount of waste/litter that's being generated along Folkestone Road.
Well done DDC officers who have worked hard and with different departments working together, to bring this prosecution to fruition.
Let's hope he sorts his other properties out (he owns quite a few along Folkestone Road); I would really like to see him lose the right to house anyone until he has done so and been seen to have done so.
Roger
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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#5
I'm confused. A pregnant lady and her two children were in one small room, I assume she wasn't working so who was paying the rent?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#6
Cllr Wallace is putting pressure on but the 24 hour rule gives time to move people out before the inspectors arrive.
http://www.dover-express.co.uk/need-snap-inspections-crack-bad-landlords/story-22979786-detail/story.html