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Squatters warned to stop relieving themselves in street
POSH squatters camped in a £5 million luxury office block in Victoria have been told to stop their anti-social behaviour by neighbours.
The two-dozen occupants of Emanuel House in Rochester Row have begun relieving themselves into the street from their makeshift sixth-floor penthouse after their water supply was last week turned off, say neighbours.
They claim the squatters, who have been in the building for nine months, have no regard for who is walking beneath them.
The group faces eviction in a hearing at the London County Court on Wednesday and housing chiefs have warned they face criminal proceedings for anti-social behaviour.
Jacqui Capri, who lives in the neighbouring block said the squatters often leave for work each day with brief cases and snappy suits. She said: “It is disgusting for people living here. The whole place stinks.”
She added: “Most of us here are leaseholders and we pay all this money to Westminster council. But we have to put up with these nasty squatters next door.”
The freehold to Emanuel House – a six storey office block – was sold to Barratt Homes last year. The developers plan to create 58 luxury flats, an multi-storey car park and a petrol station in a new nine-storey building. It was hoped that the building would be completed by January 2008.
But a spokesman for Barratt said the squatters would have to be evicted first.
A council spokesman was not available to comment. |
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