Scandal of Newham's secret community
From:
Sarah Ruiz
Date:
Jun 02 07:40 UTC
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You might also be interested in the fact that in some parts of Newham
gardens are being used to accomodate people. There is anecdotal evidence
that people are sleeping in tented comunities - these are generally, though
not exclusive, European workers.
Sarah
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Stubbs" <richard.stubbs@newham.net>
To: "Tim Erickson" <tim@e-democracy.org>
Cc: "Newham Issues Forum" <newham-issues@forums.e-democracy.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Newham] Scandal of Newham's secret community
> Tim asks what is going on and are there really illegal homes springing
> up throughout Newham.
>
> You will note the article referred to mentions additional building not
> buildings, this is almost certainly refering to adding extra rooms on
> to the back of an existing property. This is an activity for which
> permission should be sought from the Council but I think its only
> where properties are let out on a room by room basis by a private
> landlord that this amounts to new "homes" rather than simply larger
> ones.
>
> There are quite strong controls over multioccupied property and if
> they are 5 or more people living as more than one household in a
> property the property needs to be licensed by the Council. There are
> very strong penalties for not being licenced namely a £20,000 fine and
> the right for tenants to apply for a refund of rent. I would be
> interested to know if this had ever been enforced.
>
> This said in areas of London where gardens are bigger than they tend
> to be in Newham developers can build new properties in gardens and
> Councils cannot object although building controls still apply. A quick
> google shows this is a topical issue with a move to introduce a bill
> to protect gardens recorded in Hansard for 18/3/08 (by a coincidence
> of recursion the speech refers to google itself!) The second reading
> is on 13th June.
>
> Richard Stubbs
> Stratford, Newham
> Info about Richard Stubbs: http://forums.e-democracy.org/p/richardstubbs
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