The property was deteriorating, Ms Spencer said. Her team s main concern was over a potential fire.
Fire alarms were not working, she said, while some doors were not fire proof and the building s electrical system was already being overloaded. She feared worse was to come in the winter as tenants switched on electric radiators. I ve been doing this job almost 25 years and the scale of it was the most extreme I ve seen, she said.
But some of the work could have been fixed easily, she added, including one criminal offence Sutton eventually pleaded guilty to regarding handrails being dangerous.
In 2004, Sutton’s wife, Ayse, a member of the Turkish royal family bought a mansion in Horsham, East Sussex, set in 84 acres.
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The flats at 60 Faiths Lane in Norwich.
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A landlord who ran a block of flats found in breach of housing regulations has been fined £6,100.
Nick Sutton, director of the company Faiths Lane Apartments Ltd, which ran 60 Faiths Lane, a 40-flat block off Prince of Wales Road in Norwich, appeared at Great Yarmouth Magistrates Court on Monday (April 12), where he pleaded guilty to six offences relating to breaches under the housing act.
Nick Sutton has been fined £6,100 for the way he ran a block of flats in Norwich city centre.
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The allegations, brought by Norwich City Council and dating to August, September and October, 2018, included damp-stained corridors, a smoke alarm dangling from the ceiling, large gaps between rails in a stairway, and defective fire doors in the boiler room.