The council originally identified the hazards and served a prohibition order on the property on December 10 last year. The property had been sub-let as a HMO to at least eight people and it was later discovered that the back of the premises had also been occupied and posed dangerous Category One hazards. The order prohibited the property as a residential dwelling and a number of sub-tenants vacated and accepted support from the council with rehousing. The two occupants who remained at the HMO against the terms of the order have been ordered by the High Court judge to vacate the property within 14 days.
Guest house plan for residential street rejected amid concerns it was not in keeping with the area
Questions were raised over whether the proposal would bring crime and parking problems to the area
08:00, 15 MAY 2021
Cornwall Street in Hartlepool (Image: Google)
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Plans to open a guest house in a residential street have been rejected.
Chief internal auditor at the Malawi National Examinations Board (MANEB), Harrison Manda, and owner of Multi Career as well as Royal Private Secondary Schools in Karonga and Mzuzu respectively is said to have been behind the leakage of the 2020 Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) examinations that led to their cancellation before they were administered in January this year,
Nyasa Times understands.
Our sources, who include teachers, students and other school owners based in Mzuzu, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said for sometime now Manda has been “fond of leaking some examination papers” to form four learners at his schools.
Council advocates for resident safety in novel High Court ruling
THURROCK Council has been successfully granted with an interim injunction by the High Court to prevent residents living in an unsafe House in Multiple Occupation (HMO), in what is believed to be a UK first.
On Friday 7 May, the High Court granted the interim injunction against two residents who had continued living in a HMO in Grays. They had continued living there despite a number of dangerous Category One and Category Two hazards being identified at the property including risk of fire and inadequate means of escape.
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It is believed to be the first injunction of its kind to be granted in the UK where the injunction has been used to prevent occupation of a property for not complying with a prohibition order.