Gran Forbids Property Removals After Authorities Warned Demolition
A 76-year-old is refusing to hire a removals firm and get out of her house despite 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 four weeks to attempt to save the Ennerdale Close house from bulldozers and how vowed she is staying put. The former pottery employee purchased the house brand new in 1973 and insists there’s nothing wrong with the land. She has a pacemaker and suffers constant neck spasms.
A couple of her fellow neighbours were also informed their properties would be bull dozed but they used removal companies and have already moved away.
The feisty OAP, who has six grandchildren, will not move regardless of her age and states the house can stay another 30 plus years. She says the property is made up of good experiences and that if the council want her to leave, they’d need to carry her as she won’t move ahead on her own agreement.
The council statement found that the homes were built on a marl hole and presented Mrs Sey £83,000 for the home two years ago. A marl hole is ground beneath a house which is unstable but a surveyor reports that the property moved about an inch that is normal for houses.
Her son Robert states that moving house would be excessive for his mother and that she’d suffer. They are appealing the CPO but if they fail, begin a new life abroad and hire shipping companies to move overseas.
