| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Does Rupa Huq Car? | |
| Posted by: | Andrew Farmer | |
| Date/Time: | 20/11/19 08:28:00 |
| Yes. They have been using it on and off for over 30 years. It was known at first as the The Royal Crimea Guest House and was a semi-detached property. The owner, a Mrs Lipka, had been living there with an elderly dentist. It became hers when he died. The house was then in its original state. She built a hideous side addition, constructed of breeze blocks and rough timber. She began taking council tenants. She bought the other half of the property. That was in turn extended. The neighbours and wider community objected to all her planning applications. We felt she was being indulged because of her willingness to take Council tenants. A planning officer deceived the planning committee into believing that the property had consent for hostel use. The Council began operating a hostel there. Then came the Somalis and the pressure their numbers put on the Council. Mrs Lipka was always happy to take one more. The overcrowding was appalling. Three of the Somali women turned to us, the neighbours, for help. They provided a photograph of one of rooms in which one of them and five children were living: wall to wall mattresses on the floor. A child was scalded with boiling water as result of the kichen’s being locked at night to prevent arguments among the tenants. One lady fled the building and took up occupation of a shed at the bottom of the garden. We put all this to the Council (Cudmore). He did nothing. The ladies gave us signed letters so that we could represent them. Cudmore had a legal officer write to say we couldn’t. The people were only rehoused when the Government forbade placing families in B and B accommodation. The Council then admitted it never had planning consent for hostel use. When Mrs Lipka died the property was sold at auction to the present owner, whose record is set out in the first item on this thread. This is but part of the history of this appalling building and the Council’s relationship with it. The full story, when told, would provide an index of the incompetence, negligence and abuse of planning regulations by Ealing Council and its indifference to the conditions in which people are living. . I feel that this thread has run its useful course by now. I have started a new one calling into question the moral suitability of Rupa Huq to be our MP. |