Gran Denies Property Removals After Government Threaten Demolition
NewsPublished July 26, 2011 at 3:22 pm No CommentsA 76-year-old is not accepting to employ a removals firm and get out of her house regardless of being threatened by her local council with demolition.
The grandmother has been slapped with a compulsory purchase order by Stoke-on-Trent City Council meaning her home of 38 years in Middleport is set for demolition and the area landscaped. They claim the home is structurally unsafe.
But Mrs Sey has been given 30 days to attempt to save the Ennerdale Close house from bulldozers and how vowed she is staying put. The former pottery staff member bought the house brand new in 1973 and demands there’s nothing wrong with the land. She’s got a pacemaker and suffers continuous neck spasms.
Two of her fellow neighbours were also informed their homes would be bull dozed but they used removal companies and have already moved out.
The feisty OAP, that has six grandchildren, will not move regardless of her age and argues the house can remain another 30 plus years. She says the home is full of good memories and that if the council want her out, they’d have to carry her as she won’t move on her own accord.
The council statement found that the homes were built on a marl hole and offered Mrs Sey £83,000 for the home two years ago. A marl hole is ground underneath a house that is unpredictable but a surveyor reports that the property moved about an inch which is normal for houses.
Her son Robert claims that moving house would be excessive for his mother and that she’d suffer. They are fighting the CPO but should they fail, begin a new life abroad and hire shipping companies to move overseas.
