| Topic: | Does Rupa Huq Car? | |
| Posted by: | Andrew Farmer | |
| Date/Time: | 09/11/19 13:10:00 |
| Dear Rupa Huq, Do you care? I wrote to you some time ago about a neighbourhood problem: a landlord with an appalling record and a council officer who, knowing his record, licensed him as a fit and proper person to have control of an HMO. I received an automated respond but nothing more. I felt that, because there was criticism of the Labour Local Authority in my email, you were putting your party before the safety of the lives of your constituents. Here is a chance to redeem yourself. I am putting the matter to you again. THE BAD LANDLORD: ThamesHouse Property Ltd. For several years the landlord had been using his property (354-6 Uxbridge Road) as an HMO without planning consent. The tenants were housed in damp rooms with cracked, mouldy walls; the smoke-alarm was taped over; the fire escape route was blocked and there were no proper fire-doors. THE COUNCIL OFFICER Mark Wiltshire Wilshire knew all this. He also knew the tenants were causing neighbourhood nuisance. He was supplied with evidence that the landlord had admitted it but was doing nothing about it. He had over thirty statements from neighbours setting out the antisocial behaviour they were suffering from the tenants: drunken noise within the building and a squalid business they were operating in the street outside, polluting the air with engines left running, fouling the road with empty food cartons and intimating passers-by. Wiltshire licensed this landlord as a fit and proper person to have control of large-scale HMO. As a candidate for the social-justice Labour Party that claims to care for “generation rent”, will you condemn this landlord, whose record was of a merchant in filth and fire-hazard, as unfit to have control of a large-scale HMO and unwelcome in our Borough and will you condemn the council officer, who ignored his record and who know rejoices in the title Director of Safer Communities, as unit to hold office? And BEFORE the election would be nice, JUST TO SHOW THAT YOU CARE. I am copying this to the local Labour Party as I am not clear whether you are receiving emails via Westminster. Andrew Farmer |