Remember the scandalous sale of three former bogs by Sandwell Labour for just £35,000 to Abdul Naeem Quyum against Labour's own valuation of £130,000. There was no marketing nor auction offer. A sh*te deal indeed and a clear example of the comrades taking the, er, p*ss. One of the bog blocks at The Shambles (very aptly-named) in Wednesbury was sold for £10,000 and then sold on for £40,000.
On perusing the Sandwell Council website I noticed three planning applications for this property. The first two were for outline planning permission and were not proceeded with. The third was submitted on 04/11/13 for (thankfully) a change of use but there was certainly no bog-standard service from SMBC with this one since on 19/12/13 (just a month and a half later) our old mate Nick Bubalo was granting the permission! Phew, that was a relief.
The applicant for all three applications was another "name" we have met before - Bobby Jandhu of 22 Chapel Ash, Wolverhampton (home to Futures Estate Agents and, curiously, next door to the "Rickshaw Balti") and his agent was good old Anthony Barrie Hope of Kinver who, as we know, does a lot of work for the Mahboob Hussain family and connections!
As I said in my blog yesterday nothing seems to happen in Sandwell without taxis somehow becoming involved and even here there is a curious connection. In the planning process there was a suggestion from Environmental Health that the opening hours of the proposed unit should be limited but the officer who prepared the report happily knocked this on the head by reason of the fact that next-door was a 24-hour taxi office! How very "convenient".
The taxi firm was (1) Choice and Wednesbury Cars Limited which was very recently dissolved on 07/10/14 (having only been set up in 2010). Some of the original directors/shareholders were named Hussain but are not names I recognise as being connected with our amnesiac friend in McKean Road. Curiously, one director (whose address is not stated) is a Mr Abdul Qyuum (note spelling) - DOB 30/01/76. The other taxi firm at the address is (2) Choice Cars UK Limited (NOT Choice Cars Limited as stated in a SMBC document). The Facebook page boasts that this company was set up in 1999 but if that is true it must have been an unincorporated company since the limited company was only set up in June, 2013 - just in time to bid for the same big taxi contract that Five Star Taxis bid for. Happily they were successful and now boast the Sandwell Council logo on their website. The sole director and shareholder is one Basharat Hussain (DOB 08/04/73 - address unknown) but, once again., I have no evidence that he is connected with the beloved Deputy Leader.
Well we know that "City Living" is all the rage but the new owners of the Wednesbury bogs have dropped the original plan and applied for and obtained planning permission for "Shitty Living" ie to extend and convert the lavs to 3 residential apartments! Lets all hope the project doesn't go down the pan.....
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