Boarded up house on corner in Crystal palace Road.

[Lynne]

O Knowlegdeable people of East Dulwich! Does anyone know anything about the boarded-up house on Crystal Palace Rd (on road that used to lead to scaffolding company). It's been empty for years. Seems a waste

Lynne

[JDR]

I'm not very knowledgable on this and sure I will stand corrected but its not been empty that long... was a police house that was used by gun licensing dept as their base I believe. I presume they have been relocated and that it will be going for sale at some point.

But yes, imposing house. Would be lovely to see it in use again

[Big D]

I wonder if you are talking about 2 different houses one on the corner of Uplands and the other on Acre Drive

[chemu0510]

Really great

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[dollydaydream]

If it's the house opposite the Actress pub then that house belongs to the police, I think it was the the police station before the new one was built on Lordship Lane, if it's the house further down the road on the corner of Acre Drive where new houses were built several years ago,that house was all part of the site of Coventry scaffolding but they moved to a site near Sainsbury's super centre at Sydenham, Whether they still own the house or not I don't know.

[James Barber]

The house at the entrance to Acre Drive is still owned by Coventry Scaffolding. They've repeatedly assured the council empty homes team that they'll be bringing it back into use.

[fatcats]

Well as long as they have "repeatedly assured" them.

I mean that's all it takes the rest of us proles when we have to deal with the council, right?

Is there anywhere where one can find out what this Empty Homes team actually achieves? In terms of numbers of empty properties actually brought back into use?

[treehugger]

If I was James, i would stop posting on here, given that every single post seems to attract sarky comments. Give the guy a break - he doesn't deserve it every single time.

[fatcats]

Wasn't really aimed at James, but apologies if it came across that way, I think it's great that councillors directly address people's concerns on here.

[Lynne]

I did mean the house on the corner of Acre Drive, not the old police station. And it has been empty for years now

Lynne

[James Barber]

Write to the MD of Coventry Scaffolding asking when they're going to ensure this property of three flats is brought back into use.

The address is:

Coventry Scaffolding Company (London) Limited

Coventry House,

471 Southend Lane,

London,

SE26 5BT

Tel: 020 8659 8888

Email: [email protected]

[fatcats]

Thanks James, and this is not meant to be sarky but isn't that what these Empty Homes departments are supposed to do? My point is just really that it is a waste of taxpayers money that these teams even exist, if all they do is settle for empty assurances and turn a blind eye.

[James Barber]

Hi fatcats,

The empty homes team support property owners to return properties into use. Often encoruagement and small grants does the trick. To use the blunt instrument of compulsory purchase orders takes a long time and lot of cash. Hence the preference for the former rather than the latter approach.

BUT I under the CPO legislation is being changed which should make it easier to 'encourage' property owners.

Southwark, last time I asked a formal question at Council Assembly, had over 5,000 such empty properties. For the council to buy at the average property price of ?300k would take ?1.5bn.

[Selma]

I noticed a 'For Sale' sign up with Knight Frank. They don't seem to have anything on their website yet.

Will be very interesting to see what the asking price will be

[karter]

Foxtons are marketing this house for 800k.

[Jeremy]

This one? http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-23467842.html

Surely some kind of joke.

[Selma]

I meant the one corner North Cross Road, the old Police Station

[the-e-dealer]

The Secret Police House. TSG

[hellosailor]

The one Foxtons are marketing for 800k is the one about 10 doors down, also boarded up

[stephen509]

I called Perry from the scaffolding company around a year ago to declare my interest & wanted a first refusal...I didn't hear back from him..

IMO ?800k is way too high for this considering it would take around ?100k to restore this properly, I would prob rearrange some of the storage rooms also...

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-23467842.html

[bsand]

Same old Foxtons strategy - con greedy owners into thinking their property is worth far more than it is - lock them into a 3 month contract at 2.5% and then as reality dawns on the seller shred the price until it sells. Basically a con on hapless and/or greedy sellers - always amazed anyone falls for it.

[the-e-dealer]

Not just Foxtons

[bsand]

Most other agents though will negotiate on fee and lock in period - Foxton's never do.

[blue_sloth]

Selma Wrote:

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> I noticed a 'For Sale' sign up with Knight Frank.

> They don't seem to have anything on their website

> yet.

> Will be very interesting to see what the asking

> price will be

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-34913017.html ?1m guide, up for auction from the look of it

[bsand]

The deal sounds cheap but they are looking for a developer and 50% of the profits for the next 5 years. Suspect they will try for a demo job and a load of flats.