NorthernDave
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To be fair, in my experience councils will go to extraordinary lengths to avoid admitting that they're in the wrong.
£10,000 bike collection accidentally thrown away by council workmen
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mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
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So read it on the Spalding Today site.
And there's quite a chance that a notice posted on a door could blow away out in Gedney Dyke. Take a look. Windswept doesn't do it justice. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...2!3m1!1s0x47d7fc72fc117ddb:0x9d547336210bdaa6
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
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- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Same as planning application notices which routinely vanish or get posted in the wrong streets?
And yes, I didn't spot the garages either.
Bazzer
Setting the controls for the heart of the sun.
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Drago
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Why should the onus be on the tenants to have found the notice?
Why couldn't the council simply look at their records to see who is renting it, and who is still paying them money to rent it, and then speak the person thus identified?
There ain't no other valid explanation - the Carncil dropped a monumental clanger.
Why couldn't the council simply look at their records to see who is renting it, and who is still paying them money to rent it, and then speak the person thus identified?
There ain't no other valid explanation - the Carncil dropped a monumental clanger.
When it comes to legal process any direct communication is by post. If the bike owners didn't give the council their 'new' address (they moved about 40 miles away out of the district 3 years ago) the address the council would have would be the one on the original application form.
The service of a notice is always a last resort and it is standard practice to attach certain types of notices to the premises they relate to. If the garage was in use the notice would have been found.
The service of a notice is always a last resort and it is standard practice to attach certain types of notices to the premises they relate to. If the garage was in use the notice would have been found.
Drago
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The garage was in use. It just happened not to have been visited while the notice was present.
Whether they could contact a tenant is an irrelevance. The presence or otherwise attached to then premises is an irrelevance. Rent is clearly still being paid on it, something the Carncil apparently never bothered to check, so they've no moral or legal rght to repossess it and dispose of the contents. The Tenant and Landlord Act makes that pretty clear.
Whether they could contact a tenant is an irrelevance. The presence or otherwise attached to then premises is an irrelevance. Rent is clearly still being paid on it, something the Carncil apparently never bothered to check, so they've no moral or legal rght to repossess it and dispose of the contents. The Tenant and Landlord Act makes that pretty clear.
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BoldonLad
Not part of the Elite
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Fair point. This story smells of the same sort of criticism which occurs when a "Computer" sends an Invoice or other communication to a two year old, whose details are on the Electoral Register, because their parent failed to complete the form correctly. If you move house, and do not inform all relevant parties, then who's fault is that? I am as ready to bash the Local Council as anyone, but, to be fair, they cannot be expected to be clairvoyant!
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
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- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
There's no mention that they'd been paying council tax to South Holland Council since moving out of the district, so I'd bet they'd told them. No clairvoyance needed!
Ming the Merciless
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Nevertheless the council would have the latest address for them.
No they wouldn't. They had moved to a different authority.
The record of address for the garage tenancy would be what was on the application form. It is the tenants responsibility to notify the council of any changes. The tenant has signed a contract agree in this.
Putting resources into tracking down every garage tenant who disappears is a complete waste of council tax payers money and it isn't the councils responsibility to do this.
The record of address for the garage tenancy would be what was on the application form. It is the tenants responsibility to notify the council of any changes. The tenant has signed a contract agree in this.
Putting resources into tracking down every garage tenant who disappears is a complete waste of council tax payers money and it isn't the councils responsibility to do this.
