Southall Landlord Central Housing Group

Crown Court Slams Southall Landlord

A Southall landlord who refused to comply with planning laws has been served with a confiscation order and given an 18-month conditional discharge.

Bhupinder Singh Gill of Lady Margaret Road, Southall, appeared at Isleworth Crown Court on 5 December 2014. The court made a confiscation order for £66,325 that Gill made as proceeds from illegally renting his house and its outbuilding as accommodation. Gill was also given a conditional discharge for 18 months and ordered to pay £4,765.57 towards costs and a £15 victim surcharge.

The result comes after an investigation by Ealing Council’s planning enforcement team. Officers took legal action after the Southall landlord failed to comply with an enforcement notice served on him by the council in May 2009.

The notice required Gill to stop using his property as five self-contained flats and its garden outbuilding as another flat and remove all en-suite kitchens, internal partitions and doors being used to separate them.

The flats could have been used for accommodation for more than 12 people at a time.

Gill’s appeal against the enforcement notice was dismissed by the Planning Inspectorate in January 2010 and he was given 12 months to comply with the notice.

Councillor Jasbir Anand, Ealing Council’s cabinet member for housing, employment and skills, said: “We have given Mr Gill every opportunity to work with officers and rectify his mistakes. He chose to ignore the warnings and court orders and is paying heavily for it now. His greed and disregard for the law could not go without punishment and we are pleased with the court’s decision to impose such heavy penalties. Hopefully this will deter other unscrupulous landlords planning to ignore the law.”

Gill has six months to pay the court costs or could serve up to 18 months in prison if he defaults.

Blog Post from Landlord today

Thanks to David Holt for the London Southwark Crown Court Image

See details of our Guaranteed Rent Scheme here

 

If you have any comments, please email the author of this article and click on the link above

Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Post Type Selectors



Registered Office: Woodgate Studios, 2-8 Games Road, Cockfosters, Hertfordshire, EN4 9HN | Registered in England and Wales | Registered Company No. 3961047 | VAT Registration No. 752 6015 48

 

Social Media Auto Publish Powered By : XYZScripts.com
Google Rating
4.8
Based on 110 reviews
js_loader