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Fittster

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20,120 posts

219 months

Saturday 27th June 2009
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Squatters occupy the empty Brentford home of Ann and Alan Keen.

CommanderJameson

22,096 posts

232 months

Saturday 27th June 2009
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>PH implodes<

odyssey2200

18,650 posts

215 months

Saturday 27th June 2009
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Hoon to Brentford anyone?

Baseball bats optional wink

Funk Odyssey

1,983 posts

235 months

Saturday 27th June 2009
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odyssey2200 said:
Hoon to Brentford anyone?

Baseball bats optional wink
take your keyboard mate.....

laugh

350GT

73,668 posts

261 months

Saturday 27th June 2009
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Do we have any background to this, rather than a picture?

Deva Link

26,934 posts

251 months

Saturday 27th June 2009
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350GT said:
Do we have any background to this, rather than a picture?
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Fittster

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20,120 posts

219 months

Saturday 27th June 2009
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Activists have moved into the vacant home of MP couple Anne and Alan Keen, also known as "Mr and Mrs Expenses", who were recently caught up in the MPs expenses row for claiming for two second homes. The home, not one that the couple were claiming for, has been empty for nearly a year and was previously undergoing renovation work.

http://www.demotiximages.com/news/squatters-occupy...


Alan and Ann Keen, the husband-and-wife Labour MPs known to some as "Mr and Mrs Expenses", are in trouble again. The house in Brentford that they designated as their main home has apparently not been lived in for months: it's partly boarded up, and the garden is overgrown.

What surprised me, however, was that the couple have been warned by their local authority that they may forfeit the property. Must be a council house, I thought. But the Keens own the house and are being targeted under the Empty Homes Management Order, introduced by the Government to enable councils to take over freehold residential properties.


CommanderJameson

22,096 posts

232 months

Saturday 27th June 2009
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Fittster said:
What surprised me, however, was that the couple have been warned by their local authority that they may forfeit the property. Must be a council house, I thought. But the Keens own the house and are being targeted under the Empty Homes Management Order, introduced by the Government to enable councils to take over freehold residential properties.
Is that the sound of a petard, hoisting its operator?

Why, yes. I think it is.

>snigger<

odyssey2200

18,650 posts

215 months

Saturday 27th June 2009
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While I disagree with the MPs sponging second and third homes, I also see not reason that the council should be allowed to just take over an empty house which is lawfully owned by an individual.

Also I hate the factthat these freeloading scum can move into someones house and the owner is often powerless to evict the scum..




Nuisance_Value

721 posts

259 months

Saturday 27th June 2009
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Fittster said:
Squatters occupy the empty Brentford home of Ann and Alan Keen.
haha.. oh the irony.

Jasandjules

70,419 posts

235 months

Sunday 28th June 2009
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As good socialists I imagine they will be happy that other members of society are now housed.

I am sure they will in no way be taking legal action to get their house back, oh no.

Puggit

48,768 posts

254 months

Sunday 28th June 2009
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rofl

Sorry - I should be mad with the squatters, but this is too funny.

Parrot of Doom

23,075 posts

240 months

Sunday 28th June 2009
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odyssey2200 said:
While I disagree with the MPs sponging second and third homes, I also see not reason that the council should be allowed to just take over an empty house which is lawfully owned by an individual.
If the house is empty, boarded up, with an overgrown garden, and the owner can't be arsed doing anything with it, I think its entirely proper to make him sort it out, or make him lose it.

Maybe you're happy with boarded up empty houses on your street - I'm not.

ShadownINja

77,397 posts

288 months

Sunday 28th June 2009
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Parrot of Doom said:
odyssey2200 said:
While I disagree with the MPs sponging second and third homes, I also see not reason that the council should be allowed to just take over an empty house which is lawfully owned by an individual.
If the house is empty, boarded up, with an overgrown garden, and the owner can't be arsed doing anything with it, I think its entirely proper to make him sort it out, or make him lose it.

Maybe you're happy with boarded up empty houses on your street - I'm not.
Doesn't look like it was boarded up.

ShadownINja

77,397 posts

288 months

Sunday 28th June 2009
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odyssey2200 said:
While I disagree with the MPs sponging second and third homes, I also see not reason that the council should be allowed to just take over an empty house which is lawfully owned by an individual.

Also I hate the factthat these freeloading scum can move into someones house and the owner is often powerless to evict the scum..
wobble

Jasandjules

70,419 posts

235 months

Sunday 28th June 2009
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Parrot of Doom said:
If the house is empty, boarded up, with an overgrown garden, and the owner can't be arsed doing anything with it, I think its entirely proper to make him sort it out, or make him lose it.
Got any DVDs or CDs that you haven't used for a few months? Got a car that goes off the road for winter? Perhaps the council should pop round and take them away and let someone else use them?

FFS.


ninja-lewis

4,475 posts

196 months

Sunday 28th June 2009
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Jasandjules said:
Parrot of Doom said:
If the house is empty, boarded up, with an overgrown garden, and the owner can't be arsed doing anything with it, I think its entirely proper to make him sort it out, or make him lose it.
Got any DVDs or CDs that you haven't used for a few months? Got a car that goes off the road for winter? Perhaps the council should pop round and take them away and let someone else use them?

FFS.
Shelter is a basic need. DVDs and cars are not.

Parrot of Doom

23,075 posts

240 months

Sunday 28th June 2009
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Jasandjules said:
Parrot of Doom said:
If the house is empty, boarded up, with an overgrown garden, and the owner can't be arsed doing anything with it, I think its entirely proper to make him sort it out, or make him lose it.
Got any DVDs or CDs that you haven't used for a few months? Got a car that goes off the road for winter? Perhaps the council should pop round and take them away and let someone else use them?

FFS.
This isn't about a council seizing property that is looked after, or stealing people's holiday homes. Its about a council taking steps to ensure the area doesn't look like a dump. Its quite clear what happens - leave an empty scruffy house that degrades the area, and they'll take you to court to make you stop it. If you don't stop it, they'll remove your ownership of the land. I have no problem with that.

superkartracer

8,959 posts

228 months

Sunday 28th June 2009
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Scum

Super Slo Mo

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204 months

Sunday 28th June 2009
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Parrot of Doom said:
This isn't about a council seizing property that is looked after, or stealing people's holiday homes. Its about a council taking steps to ensure the area doesn't look like a dump. Its quite clear what happens - leave an empty scruffy house that degrades the area, and they'll take you to court to make you stop it. If you don't stop it, they'll remove your ownership of the land. I have no problem with that.
As was mentioned on the other thread on this subject, they don't remove your ownership. They simply take over the 'management' of the property for a period of time (and then hand it back). No one is losing their property permanently.

The inconvenience is another matter entirely.