Sweets Way occupiers manage to delay eviction
FAMILIES occupying their demolition-bound estate hailed a temporary reprieve yesterday, after a judge adjourned a developer’s call for an eviction order until next week.
Court papers were issued last week to evict the group of former residents, whose homes are set to be turned into posh flats.
Property company Annington snapped up the former army barracks from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in 1996, and since 2007 it has been leased by the Notting Hill Housing Trust for social housing.
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