A council is reportedly investigating whether a landlord has appropriate planning consent for what have been described as tiny studio flats, one of which allegedly has its toilet inside the shower cubicle because space is so tight.
London's freepaper the Evening Standard claims that tenants of the 17 apartments have been allegedly hit with revenge evictions after complaining to their landlord about heavy metal music blaring from a studio below, where bands rehearse from 10am until midnight.
The paper quotes one unnamed tenant saying: There has been rock and heavy metal music blaring all night. The noise is unbearable. Sometimes I have to cry myself to sleep. The conditions are cramped But the noise has made it too much and when I complained I got an eviction notice. It's definitely a revenge eviction. I've been punished for complaining.
The Standard claims least two tenants have been served with Section 21 notices, giving them two months to leave. Others have been served with notices terminating their tenancies.
Hackney council is investigating the complaints and whether the landlord - who apparently charges £258 a week for the units - has the correct planning permission.
The newspaper has named that landlord as Eliezer Schwarcz. It says he refused to comment when the Standard approached him at his £1.5million semi-detached townhouse in Stoke Newington.
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Steve from Leicester - exactly! I wonder how many notices these days are being reported as "revenge evictions" when there is another side to the coin entirely
Toilet inside the shower cubicle - how is that even possible
So - they have a 'wet' room! . Desirable to some.
I'm not condoning anything that the landlord may or may not have done, and I also have sympathy with the tenants to a point.
However, the bit about the "revenge eviction" leaves me bemused. I assume that the landlord has served a Section 21 at the end of a fixed term, and that this is why the tenant says they are being "evicted".
Now hang on for a moment. The tenant has told the landlord the noise is unbearable and that they "cry themselves to sleep at night", so why on earth would they have wanted to renew their tenancy in the first place
Or does the tenant think that having chosen to rent a flat above a recording studio they believe they should be able to demand that the studio closes down because its noisy