Tesco gets possession order, we remain in possession
About 20 social centre groupies went to court today dressed in all our
wet finery and had a friendly bit of banter with the Tesco legal
representative and the judge. The judge decided that, although we
pointed out in our defense that their claim wasn’t accurate and so
should be thrown out, she was happy to quickly amend it in court. This
meant that we no longer had a defense as that was the only way our legal
assistance had found for rejecting the claim. So, the judge awarded
Tesco the possession order, as we thought they might.
We raised the issue of Tesco stating that they didn’t want to apply the
possession order immediately, they just wanted hold of it. The solicitor
again confirmed that this was the case.
SO, net result, as far as we know, we can remain in there doing fun
things until Tesco want to get the builders in, hopefully sometime
never. Obviously it’d be useful to keep open some kind of dialogue with
Tesco about when they’re going to move in and we’ll look into that,
however the early hope is that we actually have the space for a number
of weeks and can get cracking in earnest to make it even more lovely and
useful.
The solicitor said in court that “Tesco has no use today for the
premises.” to which the judge replied “So they are in no position to
commence redevelopment at this moment?”, and the solicitor answered
“No.”. So if that’s right, and if they do want to wait on the planning
process before trying to evict us, it could be a long long time. Hurrah!
: ) It also means they were fibbing when they said they could open a
store “tomorrow”. Cheeky blighters.
We still have a space! Let’s use it while we can!
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13 June 2008 at 12:17 pm
dom
so maybe we will see the back of you lot thats good. i welcome tesco s cheaper shopping in mill road and maybe get rid of you smelly tramps. it really annoys me that every one else works but you lot don,t and use this as an excuse not too. come on who you kidding…..
13 June 2008 at 12:30 pm
James, Loser
Awesome awesome news. Glad we’ll get the chance to come play some music to you all!
13 June 2008 at 1:32 pm
millroadsocialcentre
Dom, quite clearly you have never met ANY of the people running the social center, because almost everyone has a job, as for those that dont, well there are lot of people out there that also dont have a job who are doing a lot more worse things than the boys and girls at the MRSC.
So please Dom, I ask you again, come down, meet some of us, see how you can get involved, or at the very least see that we dont smell (not even our canine mascot gangstar!)
Everyone has a right of choice Dom, try not to judge too much, ok?
Mark
13 June 2008 at 1:39 pm
Mani
Dom, you really shouldn’t judge people like that. Especially when you don’t know what you’re talking about. Not only do the majority of us have jobs, one of is also doing a PhD in Physics and I’m partway through my A levels. Yes, that’s right. Educated and EVERYTHING.
As for welcoming Tesco? I presume you don’t live too near to the site otherwise you’ll also be welcoming noisy building work, even noisier air conditioning once the building work is complete; traffic jams over 4 times a day while they try to manouver their trucks down roads that are far too small. But sure, who wouldn’t want that, eh?
Mani
19 June 2008 at 12:58 pm
Simon Jilley
Why not request in court that a plebiscite is enforced, to see what the public of the area really want? Surely, if this country claims to be democratic then its legal system must be too… Thereby, the biggest issue affecting Mill Road in recent years can be finalised upon public opinion, rather than the economic domination of a corporation that there has been so much protest against.