Friday, 2 August 2013

Council to Investigate 6,000 Suspected 'Sheds With Beds'

More than 6,000 outbuildings are to be investigated by a Berkshire council in a bid to target landlords who rent them out without planning permission.

Slough Borough Council said the outbuildings had been identified by aerial thermal-imaging in March.  The authority said further checks now needed to be carried out to establish whether people were living in them.  It had originally estimated up to 3,000 so-called "sheds with beds" existed in the area. The investigation forms part of a £24,000 council project to deal with the problem of illegal occupation of buildings in the town.  Read more on the BBC website.

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