Estate Agents Offer Illegal 'Beds In Sheds'

High street estate agents are renting out so-called "beds in sheds" without residential planning permission, a BBC investigation has found.  Inside Out caught two companies - Hunters and Milestone - offering sub-standard housing on behalf of landlords.  Receipts show Milestone, in Willesden Green, had let a garage without windows to a young family.  Milestone were charging a family of three £1,000 a month for a small, windowless room with a fake garage door.  Meanwhile the BBC saw another garage conversion with no planning permission in Wembley advertised by Hunters estate agents in Harrow.  The advert described it as "stunning, newly refurbished, bright and airy".  Read more on the BBC website.