‘Council demolished by garage without permission’

A woman said that when the council workers demolished her garage without permission, she lost thousands of pounds.

The Garage of Anette Holiday at Takras Road, Lofborough, one of the four during work to remove a fallen tree, was reported to be asbestos debris on the site.

The Charwood Boro Council stated that the building was considered “structurally insecure” and needed to demolish it, but the owners of the garage said they were not informed.

The authority has apologized and said that it was “wrongly identified” that the council was the owner of the garage.

Ms. Holiday said that in December, the branches of the tree were damaged to her garage and another neighbor’s roof.

He believed that the council had sent these workers, although the authority denied this, saying that an unknown third-party contractor had removed the fallen tree.

The 62 -year -old said that she and other garage owners were not informed about the journey and after throwing the garage content into a tip, she had lost thousands of pounds, which the demolition devalued her house.

Standing next to the site, which had been closed since then, Ms. Holiday told the BBC: “I know I have now got a class where I used to have a garage”.

In May, Ms. Holiday said that she was approached by a neighbor who told her that someone was “disrupting” her garage.

The only item she was able to recur, was her trik but lost more than £ 5,000 of her luggage.

Ms. Holiday said: “This huge skip came, and everyone’s belongings went there.

“Then everyone disappeared, and there was no garage left.”

Ms. Holiday said: “I was happening with other items that were closing in my life, and then everything stopped the next minute.

“They have taken my property, and I have not heard anything.”

A spokesperson confirmed that the council received a report of asbestos rubble found on the site of four garages on the site on 12 May, and a specialist contractor attended the site on 20 May.

He said: “It was determined that garages were structurally insecure and had a risk for life, the damaged sheet linked in asbestos, and needed to demolish it. The fence was placed around the garage and the contractor demolished the garage on 22 May.

“At the time of demolition, it was incorrectly identified that the council was the owner of the garage.

“We have since spoken to the owner of the site, Mrs. Holiday, and apologized for this error and for any inconvenience and crisis.

“Now we are reviewing our procedures to ensure that a similar situation does not happen again.

“Ultimately, the garage will need to be removed with unsafe.

“However, where items such as electrical goods and soft decorations can be contaminated, they need to be disposed of as they cannot be safely cleaned. The contractor was able to maintain some objects found in one of the garages.

“We know that a nearby tree was cut by third party, but the tree was not owned by the council, and it was not on the land of the council.”