Gladstones / Millennium claim form

nosferatu1001

Have you read post two of newbie thread? Tells you the next steps, so you know,what you should receive and by when.

Loadsofchildren123

I think you should do the land registry search to see who owns it.
The bar is definitely under common ownership to the Millennium company. That's common knowledge (but not really relevant, only to the extent that it indicates to me that it's quite likely they own the land - unless it's public highway?).

The LR search only costs you £3. While you can say it's for them to prove, sometimes it's just easier to get the evidence yourself (especially as it only costs £3 in this case). It saves you running a bum argument about landowner authority, or it proves that they aren't the landowner and must produce such authority.

Do a search on the council's online planning portal to see if they have advertisement/planning consent for their signage. If they don't, lodge a complaint and the council will look into it. It might not be your best point, but do it anyway and it costs nothing.

Don't sit on your laurels here, learn from your past experience and arm yourself with all the facts you can get.

wi3347

nosferatu1001 wrote: »

Have you read post two of newbie thread? Tells you the next steps, so you know,what you should receive and by when.

I have yes! thank you

wi3347

Loadsofchildren123 wrote: »

I think you should do the land registry search to see who owns it.
The bar is definitely under common ownership to the Millennium company. That's common knowledge (but not really relevant, only to the extent that it indicates to me that it's quite likely they own the land - unless it's public highway?).

The LR search only costs you £3. While you can say it's for them to prove, sometimes it's just easier to get the evidence yourself (especially as it only costs £3 in this case). It saves you running a bum argument about landowner authority, or it proves that they aren't the landowner and must produce such authority.

Do a search on the council's online planning portal to see if they have advertisement/planning consent for their signage. If they don't, lodge a complaint and the council will look into it. It might not be your best point, but do it anyway and it costs nothing.

Don't sit on your laurels here, learn from your past experience and arm yourself with all the facts you can get.

Fancy a rum is around the corner and down the street, close but not next to this site. In that area you also have the other businnesses i mentioned and inbetween you have vue cinema, quick fit, a curry house etc so unclear. The street its on is a public highway though, its sort of an alley way that leads through onto wind street. There is council parking bays on the left and this millennium bit is on the right so i dont think so.

That being said the advice here is always valued and appreciated to i will get hold of the LR people and the council in the coming days. My defence is submitted now so all this would be mentioned in my WS if it get allocated to a small claims track so we have a bit of time yet, but i will get on with what youve suggested.

Thanks!

Loadsofchildren123

Phone Highways at Swansea council to check its status (ie if it's public highway). I think this is the alleyway that goes up behind No Sign Wine Bar?

wi3347

Loadsofchildren123 wrote: »

Phone Highways at Swansea council to check its status (ie if it's public highway). I think this is the alleyway that goes up behind No Sign Wine Bar?

Yes that is the one! ive just applied for the LR title register of the metropole chambers, see if it comes back millennium are the owners of the land.

wi3347

Loadsofchildren123 wrote: »

I think you should do the land registry search to see who owns it.
The bar is definitely under common ownership to the Millennium company. That's common knowledge (but not really relevant, only to the extent that it indicates to me that it's quite likely they own the land - unless it's public highway?).

The LR search only costs you £3. While you can say it's for them to prove, sometimes it's just easier to get the evidence yourself (especially as it only costs £3 in this case). It saves you running a bum argument about landowner authority, or it proves that they aren't the landowner and must produce such authority.

Do a search on the council's online planning portal to see if they have advertisement/planning consent for their signage. If they don't, lodge a complaint and the council will look into it. It might not be your best point, but do it anyway and it costs nothing.

Don't sit on your laurels here, learn from your past experience and arm yourself with all the facts you can get.

Also checked the councils planning portal, there is nothing on their for application of planning permission for signage so i will launch a complaint with them via the portal.

wi3347

Ladies and gents i think we may have a winner,

The Land registry comes back to show the owners are - METROPOLE PROPERTY INVESTMENTS LIMITED (Co. Regn. No.6674242) of Metropole Chambers, Salubrious Passage, Swansea SA1 3RT.
And the lender is a Swedish company: Svenska Handelsbanken AB (publ)

Now heres the good bit. I got the plans of the location from the LR as well and it shows that the area that Millennium have erected their signs are not within the boundary line! only the building it self is, not the outside area where they have put up signs on the outside of the building. As far as i can tell this is public land! so the owners of the building wouldn't of had the authority to give them "permission" to enforce parking, even if their is a contract between them.

Thats my understanding of it, thoughts?

nosferatu1001

Makes sense.
Ask the council parking team. If they pave authorised millennium to charge parking notices on this land....that usually gets movement, they don't like people,encroaching their turf ��

Coupon-mad

Great!

Salubrious Passage

Oooo-errr!