empty shop suddenly trading again below flat...

lampard

hi

Tried to call shelter but line is busy.

I moved into a flat about 2 months ago now. The shop below me was empty and as far as I was told by the letting agent wasnt going to become a shop, it was just laying empty.

No for sale signs or anything were outside it and suddenly this morning there was workmen fitting the shop up, as it is opening in a few weeks time!!

:eek: Is this allowed? I cant help but feel ive been duped into taking the flat as surely you just cant decide to open a shop just like that.

Anyone been through anything like this before?

ILW

So there was an empty shop which is now going to be an open shop. Am I missing something?

Emmzi

shelter can only help if you are homeless, not if you are irked about change of use

if you are renting, stick it out for the length of your contract then move

lampard

ILW wrote: »

So there was an empty shop which is now going to be an open shop. Am I missing something?

Helpful lol

There was nothing in the shop, it was an empty premises. Perhaps i shouldnt have called it a shop.

Simply put

It was empty when I moved in, and now workmen were fitting shelves etc in it today and welding pipes as it is opening in a few weeks.

ILW

No landlord is going to leave a commercial premises empty on purpose. The bit I do not get is why you think they would.

poppysarah

what sort of shop is it (Check on the local council website perhaps - it'll have a class I think and they mean different things..)

a retail shop open during normal hours won't be a problem. A kebab shop might be.

lampard

God i hate the 8 or 9 posts of unrelevant !!!! on MSE from old fatties on their soapbox ranting about how the world should be, before the one post from a person with information that is relevant to the actual question is posted

lampard

poppysarah wrote: »

what sort of shop is it (Check on the local council website perhaps - it'll have a class I think and they mean different things..)

a retail shop open during normal hours won't be a problem. A kebab shop might be.

That is the one useful post i was waiting for, knew it would come. All threads on MSE have the same pattern i find. So thank you poppy sarah :j

Gwhiz

lampard wrote: »

God i hate the 8 or 9 posts of unrelevant !!!! on MSE from old fatties on their soapbox ranting about how the world should be, before the one post from a person with information that is relevant to the actual question is posted

In the same way that we "old timers" hate !!!!less people posting loads of old claptrap about nothing without asking specifics or getting off their own !!!!!! to find out something that is feet from their own home!

Seems people are incapable of thinking for themselves these days. Who'd have thought; an empty SHOP suddenly becoming an active SHOP!

Oh, and if you don't like the answers don't post the question!

Jowo_2

lampard wrote: »

God i hate the 8 or 9 posts of unrelevant !!!! on MSE from old fatties on their soapbox ranting about how the world should be, before the one post from a person with information that is relevant to the actual question is posted

Sometimes you have to worry about the logic of an OP.

A commercial premises has a new tenant. Sounds like capitalism to me rather than a breach of housing law....

How can anyone live above an unoccupied shop and not consider the risk that it could start trading again, which is a normal event in the lifecycle of a commercial property...?

A landlord and their agent are not responsible for the environment outside of their property, not noise, not neighbour problems, not crime and certainly not commerce...

PasturesNew

I kind of hope it's a 4am kebab shop now .... am I bad?