4th
Oct 2017
Tenants were nearly left completely in the dark when they were threatened with having their electricity being turned off because the developer of the properties had not paid their bills for years.
If the threat had been carried out the tenants would have been left without any communal lighting, no door entry system, no car park lighting and the lifts turned off.
The tenants living in the upmarket and exclusive apartment development were given notice that their communal electricity supply would be cut of because their landlord had repeatedly failed to pay the bills for years.
The energy supplier SSE left the notice in the Stanmore Place development in Canon's Park, where the average price of an apartment is £500,000.
A resident, who wished to remain anonymous, said: "I was greeted by legal notice stuck to my flat block main door.
"What transpires is that A2Dominion had not paid an outstanding electricity bill to SSE for at least four years for the sum of around £1,500.
"On this occasion they failed to attend to a payment to SSE for the communal electricity supply."
The residential property group owns nearly 37,000 homes across London and the South is responsible for many properties in the development.
A spokesman for the group: “We’re sorry to residents who were alarmed by the legal notices placed in Bletchley Court by SSE, and thanks to those who notified us of them.
“Some of our electric bills were incorrectly sent to our old address, however this has now been corrected, and all of our bills are now fully up-to-date.”
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