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Originally Posted by JCB
I don't know whether this would have any bearing on buildings insurance , but at the meeting the residents were told that the terrace was being assessed as one entity . If half of the terrace was deemed as sound and half as in need of demolition , the whole terrace would have to be demolished .
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Not necessarily. Buttresses have been quite successfully used to shore up partial terraces in the past and the houses in question were added onto the original block in the first place against advice.
S215 notices are there to make owners sit up and make sure their houses are in good repair. If we go down the route of buying up everything shoddy we'd be broke within three weeks.
Bad landlords/owners are a perennial bugbear across the borough and we need blanket legislation against this. It came into force in five areas on 1st October for a five year period, why not Hyndburn-wide I don't know because we've been screaming for it in Rishton for years.