According
to Ms. Richardson there’s about 120 boat people holed up in Bexley and using
Home Office statistics one might guess about 100 are Albanians and while here
they have to live somewhere. Only old soldiers sleep in shop doorways.
So attention residents of Thanet Road, Erith and nearby Brook Street. A Mr. Shkembi
has applied to turn two existing houses into HMOs (Houses of Multiple
Occupation) and has told Bexley Council that he expects to spend up to £2 million
on each of them and accommodate five people in both.
That is one hell of a lot of money to spend on a house
very little bigger in floor area than mine. This particular Albanian has done very well for himself.
It is going to become some sort of palace obviously but the planning application
only lists what is not going to be provided. All we know from it is no parking spaces, no
electric heating, no air-conditioning, no solar panels, no heat pump, no EV
charging points, no fibre internet, no new trees or hedges and no change to
floor areas. If approved it starts building next month to be finished by May. Has Dulux increased in price that much?
Planning applications 23/00171/FUL and 23/00170/FUL refer.