Regulars readers will know that Cllrs Hussain, Eling, Hackett and Ian Jones determined to sell the vacant plot of land at Lodge Street, Oldbury. As with most of the dodgy Sandwell Labour land sales Neeraj Sharma and Nick Bubalo were tasked with the disposal. Eventually Jan Britton's bent paid service sold the plot at a knock-down price to Cllr Hussain's son, Azeem Hafeez, who also happened to be an employee in Nick Bubalo's department. (Incidentally, our old friend David Willetts was also involved in this matter.....).
When I confronted Hussain, Darren Cooper (the late "Leader" of the Council) and Ian Jones about this, Hussain infamously opined that there had been no corruption and the land had been sold cheap as it was "f*cking shit" - a view with which the Smethwick Scumbag enthusiastically concurred.
Hafeez put in a planning application on 30th December, 2013 with his agent falsely signing a declaration that Hafeez had owned the land for at least 28 days when, in fact, the corrupt Council did not convey the property to him until 2nd January, 2014. (The same agent made a similar false ownership declaration in respect of the Albert Street bogs - sold to a family member, by marriage, of Cllr Hussain - but Hussain's big pal Nick Bubalo told me this didn't matter which rather begs the question of what the legal declaration is actually for).
This major application sailed through the planning process - indeed the awful Roger Horton (father of the lying former Labour Councillor, Lucy Cashmore, actually eased the way as we shall see. We have seen time and again how the pathetic bunch of unemployed scroungers and other deadbeats who constitute the Labour Group in "Sadwell" repeatedly failed to scrutinise Cooper and Britton's disastrous regime and so it is worth setting out in full the list of Councillors who nodded this through:
Councillor Frear (Chair); Councillors Ashman, Costigan, S Davies, Dhallu, R Horton, P M Hughes, Preece, B Price, Rouf, Tagger, Trow, Ward and Webb. Councillors Peter Hughes and Olwen Jones were observers at the meeting.
(It is understood that Rouf is a distant relative of Hussain and so, therefore, of his son but he made no declaration of interest. He is a close friend of the family in any event but did not see this as a reason not to vote on this matter).
An objector actually turned up at the planning meeting - but Hafeez's agent assured the Committee that, inter alia, his client "had agreed to meet with residents to address concerns". None of the glittering array of Council talent present questioned the propriety of a council employee in Bubalo's department being left to address the concerns of taxpayers on his own planning application!
No reasons are given in the minutes but Cllr Roger Horton - in consultation with Frear and the "vice-chair" (no, nothing to do with Cllr Hosell "lol") - suddenly took it upon himself to try to remove this major application from the normal process. Instead of the full Committee continuing to deal with it, Horton proposed that the Committee delegate the process direct to Nick Bubalo! The above-named unanimously voted this weird proposal through seemingly without question. Many Councillors deny they knew what was going on under Jan Britton but this seems to give the lie to that! (Bubalo was very directly involved in all the bent land deals - and the corrupt Public debacle - but, like Jan Britton and Neeraj Sharma, has apparently yet to be interviewed under caution in a police station as to his state of knowledge when he was passing the corrupt transactions - or alleged lack of knowledge. This needs to be rectified.)
Bubalo granted permission for 14 three and four bedroom houses on the "f*cking sh*t" land and then helpfully amended the decision for his work colleague by changing one of the house permissions to five bedrooms.
And so, folks, this was the site yesterday:
The six semi-detached houses are complete and at least four are occupied. Hafeez bought the very large plot from us taxpayers for just £145,000. He used the McKean address of his Father on the legal documents (he used a different address in Rowley Regis on another Land Registry title). Four of the houses have sold as follows (oddly, one for considerably more than the others):
No. 9 - £155,000; No. 11 - £189,999; No. 12 - £147,500 and No. 14 - £155,000.
Of course, Hafeez has had the cost of building and marketing the properties but his gross take against his £145,000 purchase price already stands at £647,499 and he has still got 10 more expensive properties to sell! Not so "f*cking sh*t" then and the money is all legit as WMP refuse to investigate this.
Whilst the local Cowards in Blue suck their thumbs it is to be hoped the taxman/taxwoman will take a keener interest in all this. Hafeez set up a Limited Company, Broadwell Developments Limited (he is the sole shareholder) and to take the p*ss used the McKean Road address as its first registered office. He transferred the plot to the limited company for the same price he paid for it ie £145,000 and so if the taxman decides that was legal he will avoid any personal capital gains tax liability. He has borrowed to fund the building which will reduce his profit and his tax liability. (All this remember when he was an humble employee of Sandwell Council and receiving taxpayers' money.)
If, however, the tax authorities want to take a look at Broadwell's accounts they will be sadly disappointed. This from Companies House today:
Let us hope that when Azeem is ordering the naans at Akhbars he will invite his old work colleague and friend of his father's along - though lay off the rich stuff Nick!
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