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Yorkshire pensioners are facing eviction after discovering their retirement homes are in fact holiday bungalows.
Around 200 people in Beverley, East Yorkshire, invested in properties in Lakeminster Park, believing the site was a retirement complex, the Daily Mail reports.
However, East Riding Council has informed the pensioners the site only has planning permission for holiday homes, meaning they are not allowed to live there full time.
The council claims the site's developer, Flannigan Estates, has purposefully mis-sold the two-bedroom bungalows.
Residents received letters last week informing them the council is pressing ahead with "enforcement action" against them.
A council spokesperson said eviction could not be ruled out. The developer is attempting to obtain retrospective planning permission.
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Quite so!
My thoughts exactly! Unfortunately, the developer can't be evicted from his/her home...which would seem fair?
Posted by: Paul Harris
Legals
The solicitors acting for the purchase should have picked this up and will have liability
Posted by: Michael Royde
Now all we need
Is someone at the FSA to decide that the purchase of a hoiliday home is in-fact a retail investment so that the FOS (and then FSCS) can pick up the tab for rehousing these people... Then we can all step in and sort it out through an interim levy!
Posted by: You must be joking
Common Sense
This is awful. We should protect the most vunerable people in society. Obviously the council doesn't have an issue with the buildings being there. Each case should be judged on its own merits and this is a case where common sense should apply and the council should back off, show they have a heart and allow them to stay. Having experienced the wrath of the council I can honestly say planning needs totally reforming.
Posted by: R Whitehead
Correction of Factual Inaccuracy
The operator of the site at Lakeminster Park is incorrectly quoted as being FLANNIGAN ESTATES LIMITED when in fact the operator is LAKEMINSTER PARK LIMITED. Please will you correct the article to reflect this?
Posted by: Lewis Griffiths
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Planning Permission
Maybe there will be precedent for circumventing planning permission soon following the antics in Essex! Can't see bus loads of 'protesters' turning up to help the old folks though can you?
Posted by: Anon