Landlords excuse: building has been lived in extensively, and needs a multimillion pound refurbishment. Building was completely refurbished in 2017.
150 people served with section 21 eviction notices.
Update: There’s now a petition you can sign to counter this predatory landlord behaviour: https://chng.it/P2j7yj2xM4
This is so fucked up.
They added: “The building has been intensively occupied since it opened over seven years ago. It is a multi-million-pound refurbishment …”
wtf? You opened the building SEVEN YEARS AGO, and you need to completely refurbish it already?! How fucking shit must you be at owning and managing a building to need to spend millions of pounds to redo it SEVEN FUCKING YEARS after opening the building?!?!
This company shouldn’t be allowed to exist, let alone fuck up the course of 150 people’s lives. Absolute scum.
The company is Aitch Group. Seems nice enough, until they start mass evicting people for “multimillion pound refurbishment” of a 7 year old property that has been “extensively occupied”.
What does that even mean? Have they been surprised people occupied it so “extensively” in a building they refurbished for people to live in?
Edit: used the actual term from the article, instead of my memory of the wording in the article.
And if they do need to do a refurbishment, why not one floor at a time? Why should the tenants be burdened with the cost of moving? If work needs doing, pay for the tenants to live elsewhere for the duration so they don’t lose their homes.
My guess is these will be back in the market as ‘luxury’ flats in 6 months’ time.
