Twenty-one people have been rehoused by Hackney Council in London after they were found living in an unsafe and unauthorised rental property.
Hackney Council staff, together with London Fire Brigade officers, discovered a three-storey office building with families living in a series of squalid bedsits on the first and second floors, with only one kitchen between them and inadequate bathroom provision and water supply.
The landlord had not been granted planning permission for residential use.
The residents, including families, were using makeshift cooking facilities in cramped, overcrowded rooms.
The building’s landlord has been served with an order to stop the property being rented out as accommodation, or risk prosecution and a fine of up to £5,000, with additional fines for every day after the order came into force.
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Where these family from?