Hi,
Really hope someone can advise me. My late neighbours' children are trying to sell the house to what appears to be property developers. Although the house has not been sold yet, the potential buyer of the house have stated that they own the property on Certificate of Ownership - Certificate B (Householder Application for Planning Permission for works and extension, Town and Planning Act 1990), which states that whoever signs the form is the owner of the property at the time of application, or 21 days prior before the date of the application. I know this not to be the case. I did inform the Council's Development OFfice who wrote to me stating "You are advised that it can be an offence to complete an Ownership Certificate incorrectly." However, when I rang them to follow up the email, the Development Officer said they didn't care, as long as they were the owners when the application was approved. Nevertheless, if they have already lied on the forms, it doesn't bode well that they will follow the plans and regulations. I have also heard that the buyers are paying cash and want to buy "in a hurry", so all kinds of concerns about that too (money laundering...? these are, after all, strange times). Although not stated on the forms it looks from the plans that they want to convert the house into six separate flats in a very quiet residential area. So all of this is extremely worrying. Please, please can someone advise who I would, at least, report the initial offence to and if I have concerns about a cash purchase "in a hurry" maybe that too. Many thanks, would be very grateful for any advice.
Really hope someone can advise me. My late neighbours' children are trying to sell the house to what appears to be property developers. Although the house has not been sold yet, the potential buyer of the house have stated that they own the property on Certificate of Ownership - Certificate B (Householder Application for Planning Permission for works and extension, Town and Planning Act 1990), which states that whoever signs the form is the owner of the property at the time of application, or 21 days prior before the date of the application. I know this not to be the case. I did inform the Council's Development OFfice who wrote to me stating "You are advised that it can be an offence to complete an Ownership Certificate incorrectly." However, when I rang them to follow up the email, the Development Officer said they didn't care, as long as they were the owners when the application was approved. Nevertheless, if they have already lied on the forms, it doesn't bode well that they will follow the plans and regulations. I have also heard that the buyers are paying cash and want to buy "in a hurry", so all kinds of concerns about that too (money laundering...? these are, after all, strange times). Although not stated on the forms it looks from the plans that they want to convert the house into six separate flats in a very quiet residential area. So all of this is extremely worrying. Please, please can someone advise who I would, at least, report the initial offence to and if I have concerns about a cash purchase "in a hurry" maybe that too. Many thanks, would be very grateful for any advice.
Planning Application Fraud
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