By Gabriel Princewill-
Greenwich Health Environmental could face a harassment investigation, a South London landlady has told the Eye Of Media.Com. A landlady is seeking legal advice to pursue a criminal investigation into harassment from a council officer of Greenwich Council.
The woman is seeking legal advice with respect to her next response to the environmental department of Greenwich Council after a councillor defied an assessment by The Eye of Media.Com that he had no right to hassle a landlady coping with a personally traumatic eviction case with a former tenant who was convicted for assaulting her.
The landlady whose anonymity has been protected from the outset, told The Eye Of Media.Com: ” I am seeking legal advise with respect to a harassment claim against a councillor from the Environmental and Health part of Greenwich Council. I want all those who may have authorised this kind of harassment to be investigated.”
The councillor in question is currently not being named because of legal advice requiring confirmation the man had not been authorised to continue making the calls to the landlady. His culpability could be lowered if his actions are being approved by his superiors, but there is no doubt they are operating under a misapprehension of the law.
By honouring the requests of a free loader whose tenancy has expired and who has no legal grounds to make them, they have demonstrated poor judgement. Poor judgement, but respectable leaders and organisations don’t make them. Plumstead MP, Clive Efford was last month forced to intervene in the high tension drama , but the heat has not yet evaporated.
The Environmental health section of Greenwich Council believes the Housing Act 2004 imposes a duty on them to ensure landlords keep HMO properties in good condition, but the Eye Of Media.Com has told Greenwich Council that they have misinterpreted the purpose of the Housing Act 2004.
Statutory provisions are easily misinterpreted and applied in isolation of their wider objectives, but managers and supervisors of various prominent roles are expected to be conversant with the law. Moreover, it is imperative that all legal applications in all areas that directly affect their professional domain. This is where Greenwich Council’s Environmental and Health Section have erred.
DUTY
The issue in dispute concerns a damaged ceiling and a partly malfunctioning cooker. The landlady has been told by this publication that she has a duty to perfect the state of the property, but that we agree that a violent freeloader has no rights of claim. We told her last week to ignore the Council officer in question, but she says she wants a harassment case against him.
Bailiffs are scheduled to force him out next Monday, and the Eye Of Media.Com will be there to see if he waits till the 11th hour or whether he has to be dragged out,
A police investigation into malicious harassment involving the environmental health may be difficult to prove, but she wants to have a go at it.
” I think either the Council Officer is mad or the law is mad. If this council thinks I should be fixing things for a man that hasn’t paid me a penny for 14 months, assaulted me, and still lives in my property, they can’t go and jump! I am not doing anything for that prat!
A line of managers are in line to be separately scrutinised by the Eye Of Media.Com with respect their application of the law and whether they had permitted their employee to continue contact he could not legally justify.
Greenwich Council told The Eye Of Media.Com that the man in question is a council officer carrying out his role, but we agree with the landlady in question that his continuous calls amount to harassment.