Gran Refuses Property Removals After Authorities Threaten Demolition
A 76-year-old is declining to employ a removals firm and get out of her house regardless of being confronted by her local council with demolition.
The grandmother has been handed 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 was given 30 days to try and save the Ennerdale Close house from bulldozers and how vowed she is staying put. The former pottery worker bought the house brand new in 1973 and demands there’s nothing wrong with the land. She’s got a pacemaker and experiences continuous neck spasms.
A couple of her fellow neighbours were also told their properties were to be bull dozed but they hired removal companies and have already moved away.
The feisty OAP, who has six grandchildren, won’t move irrespective of her age and states the house can remain another 30 plus years. She says the home is packed with happy feelings and that if the council want her to leave, they’d have to carry her as she won’t move on her own agreement.
The council report found that the homes were constructed on a marl hole and offered Mrs Sey £83,000 for the home two years ago. A marl hole is ground beneath a house that is unpredictable but a surveyor reports that the property moved about an inch which is regular for houses.
Her son Robert states that moving house would be too much for his mother and that she would suffer. They are fighting the CPO but should they fail, begin a new life abroad and hire shipping companies to move overseas.