Entrepreneur squatters take over empty Bath shops

[Tony Gosling]

Squatters spark anger as they take over shops
http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/Squatters-spark-anger-shops/story-13336850-detail/story.html
Thursday, September 15, 2011 - Bath Chronicle
Squatters have moved into two empty city centre shops and have 
started running their own businesses from them.
Two companies selling women's handbags and other accessories have set 
up shop in the former Jane Norman shop in Union Street and the old 
Jessops branch in Southgate Street.
Both have put up coloured posters in the window, offering deals on 
various goods, and have been playing loud music to entice customers in.
The owners of both units have confirmed that they are taking legal 
action to evict the squatters and hope that they will have a court 
order by the end of this week.
Mike McElhinney, partner in charge of the Bath branch of commercial 
property firm King Sturge, said he believed dishonest locksmiths from 
elsewhere must have opened the properties for the squatters.
He said: "A few years ago we had the same problem in another shop in 
Bath. They always put up speakers at the door, they always sell the 
same sort of products.
"If anybody in a suit goes in, then all the staff seem to 
mysteriously disappear.
"If we ask them how they got in then they say they found it open. 
They have friendly locksmiths from some distant place who unlock the 
door for them and go off, leaving the keys in the door for them. So 
technically they don't break in.
"They are paying no rents, no rates and no electricity, and are 
taking business out of the mouths of those companies which are paying 
their bills."
A man who appeared to be running the business in the former Jessops 
store told a Chronicle reporter that he did not want to talk about it 
and ordered her out of the shop.
A member of staff working at the former Jane Norman store said he 
believed his boss was paying rent on a temporary one-month contract 
and had no idea that they were regarded as squatters.
A spokesman for real estate fund manager PRUPOIM, which owns the 
former Jessops shop, said: "We are aware of this unlawful occupation 
and have already begun taking legal action against these occupiers."
At the moment the former Jane Norman store is the hands of 
administrators Zolfo Cooper after the women's clothing chain went 
under earlier in the year.
A spokesman said: "I can confirm that the administrators are working 
with the landlord to address this issue. The administrators are also 
in negotiations with the landlord regarding the lease of the property 
for the long-term."

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