Court Case

In 2006 the local community and Wirral Borough Council took N&P Windows, Wallasey to court. WBC and the residents believed that the premises now occupied by N&P Windows, Wallasey had undergone a change of use when N&P Windows converted the shop into a factory.

To defend the case N&P Windows needed to prove that there had been 10 years of continuous manufacturing in the shop.

The property had previously been occupied by a relative of N&P Windows, he stated he had been manufacturing there.

To prove 10 years of continuous manufacturing N&P produced less than 20 invoices. These included trade between family members companies. They did not produce a single years evidence of continuous deliveries of raw materials. I however provided evidence from their suppliers that they only delivered completed frames.

Bar one ALL the residents stated that they had never seen any deliveries of raw materials but they had seen deliveries of completed frames. They had not heard the sound of manufacturing or seen waste materials being stored or removed.

Presided over by a Mr Thew he decided that despite a paucity of documentation and witnesses stating the exact opposite that a factory had magically operated continuously for ten years without anyone seeing or hearing it. Raw materials were invisibly delivered and stored, waste was never produced. A miracle.

There really is very little that I can add to this. Mr Thew created and imagined his own evidence and ruled on that.

I have presented this material to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.

The purpose of this website is to give information supporting a petition to Wirral Borough Council, its intention is to return Rugby Road to an entirely residential area. Not a residential area with an added rubbish tip/factory that threatens our health, pollutes the land, obstructs the road and pavements, threatened pensioners, operates noisily from 06.00hrs, has machinery that is so loud that the operators need ear defenders but N&P leave the doors and windows open so we can all suffer.

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