Please explain this to me, where did the money go?

[Adrian W]

So this bloke seems to be a nutcase, digs tunnels under his house and stores rubbish.
It just happens that the house is on prime development land and it then gets sold for £1.2 million a few years later, in the mean time the bloke who is old dies. And somehow there is a bill for at least £400k owing to the council for something that they insisted on doing. Please explain this to me.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-188986...

[Adrian W]

I assumed from reading the article that it was his, however you may be right and it was rented

[Adrian W]

paulrockliffe said:

They would have had to section him and get some sort of costs award against the value of his property. There's lots in there that doesn't make sense though. Surely the fix was simply to knock it down, fill the hole with the rubble and start again though.

So who comissioned the builders and what could cost £408000? i'd love to see that quote. phone cement company, order ready mix lorry, fill foundations with said cement...........£408000 please.

[Adrian W]

OscarIndia said:

It was unsafe, so they condemned it and evicted him. He did own it, but the cost for making it sfe was £293k which he didn't pay.

I wouldn't pay it either It seems from this article the council was spending his money like water.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10352222

Id love to know what the developer is going to do to the repaired (safe) house.

[Adrian W]

Even more odd, if you go on Streetview the house that the council spent so much on repairing seems to have been demolished.............................. Looks like a very fashionable area now!