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    • The property was our family home.  A fixed low rate btl/ development loan was given (last century!). It was derelict. Did it up/ was rented out for a while.  Then moved in/out over the years (mostly around school)  It was a mix of rental and family home. The ad-hoc rents covered the loan amply.  Nowadays  banks don't allow such a mix.  (I have written this before.) Problems started when the lease was extended and needed to re-mortgage to cover the expense.  Wanted another btl.  Got a tenant in situ. Was located elsewhere (work). A broker found a btl lender, they reneged.  Broker didn't find another btl loan.  The tenant was paying enough to cover the proposed annual btl mortgage in 4 months. The broker gave up trying to find another.  I ended up on a bridge and this disastrous path.  (I have raised previous issues about the broker) Not sure what you mean by 'split'.  The property was always leasehold with a separate freeholder  The freeholder eventually sold the fh to another entity by private agreement (the trust) but it's always been separate.  That's quite normal.  One can't merge titles - unless lease runs out/ is forfeited and new one is not created/ granted. The bridge lender had a special condition in loan offer - their own lawyer had to check title first.  Check that lease wasn't onerous and there was nothing that would affect good saleability.  The lawyer (that got sacked for dishonesty) signed off the loan on the basis the lease and title was good and clean.  The same law firm then tried to complain the lease clauses were onerous and the lease too short, even though the loan was to cover a 90y lease extension!! 
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    • I understand what you mean. But consider that part of the problem, and the frustration of those trying to help, is the way that questions are asked without context and without straight facts. A lot of effort was wasted discussing as a consumer issue before it was mentioned that the property was BTL. I don't think we have your history with this property. Were you the freehold owner prior to this split? Did you buy the leasehold of one half? From a family member? How was that funded (earlier loan?). How long ago was it split? Have either of the leasehold halves changed hands since? I'm wondering if the split and the leashold/freehold arrangements were set up in a way that was OK when everyone was everyone was connected. But a way that makes the leasehold virtually unsaleable to an unrelated party.
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Thank you for having me on your forum,

 

Been very incredibly stupid this evening on the way home from worOn my way home this evening from work I decided to go through the country roads.

 

I was going though a smallish village, and just before exiting the village there were 3 guys in high viz with a speed gun pointing at me (not Police).

 

Hands up far cop I was going over the speed limit as the guy holding the gun had a shocked look on his face.

 

The road was a 30, and to be honest I just wasn't thinking. Saw the national speed up ahead and saw the guys too late (again no excuse)

 

I could have been doing between 55-60 I honestly don't know.

 

My fear is now what is likely to happen?

 

Given that I was driving in excess of the limit, and probably over 50.

 

Given the twists in the road there is no way I was over 60 (not that it makes it ok).

 

What are the chances of them having a PCSO with them?

 

We are talking a very small village here.

 

All I could see was high vis jackets, no uniformed officers.

 

I even drove back a little while later (not speeding this time) and there was 3 people in high vis, no officer as I could see.

 

Absolutely gutted and panicking, so if someone can please help me out it would be much appreciated.

 

All in all a bit of a bad day., and a foolish error

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I'm not condoning speeding but in my opinion these Community Speed Watch schemes are causing more problems than they solve.

 

Give some people one iota of responsibility and they will abuse it to the extreme.

 

I have seen videos on Youtube of retired types virtually jumping in front of speeding vehicles as they wrongly believe they have some super powers due to the Hi Viz vest and radar gun they have been given.

 

It won't be long before a fatality occurs. Policing the public is a job for - well, the Police and no one else.

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Surprised they ahvent been arrested for causing alarm or distress with their fake guns

 

If not speeding, why would someone be alarmed or distressed?.

 

If speeding, would a 'reasonable person' be alarmed or distressed by the prospect they might be caught speeding? Probably not, as it is the risk that accompanies speeding.

 

So, what grounds would they be arrested on? It isn't "if you cause fear, alarm, or distress to ANYONE", but the offence is if in those circumstances a REASONABLE person would be caused fear, alarm, or distress.

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read the firearms act and the crime and disorder act, nothing to do with motoring offences. Possession of an imitation firearm ina public place. The argument that they are on community watch isnt considered by wording of the law but like all if these things, the law is contorted so the local chief of police may choose to avoid applying it to their own schemes.

 

Another example was Kent police handing over the details of all firearm certificate holdetrs to a comany called SmarPiers Morganer. The idea of this was that the gun owner bought this product and maked their guns with it and fif they were subsequently used in a crime the police could idnetify the source of the gun. Well, that is a massive breach of the DPA but wil the chief constable get done for that? i'm sure that SmarPiers Morganer makes a nice donation to an ACPO approved charity and there is no financial benefit for the police but what idiot thought it would be a good idea to give out the names and addresses of every gun owner in the county to a bunch of unknowns?

 

Undoubtedly " not in the public interest" to chase up the instigators of either of these two crap ideas that break the law.

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Thats a far stretch ericsbrother. A very far stretch. No court etc in their right mind would believe that someone thought it was an actual gun.

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A very far stretch. No court etc in their right mind would believe that someone thought it was an actual gun.

 

You assume Courts are so infallible, but what about trained, specialist firearms police officers?

They shot and killed Harrry Stanley because they couldn't tell the difference between a gun or a table leg wrapped in a plastic bag.

 

Things happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Harry_Stanley

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They have cover, representation, an independant investigator etc etc. Not comparable.

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