(from the Cambridge Evening News)
TWO builders who were fined thousands of pounds after digging a massive hole in the ground which left nearby properties on the brink of collapse are pressing ahead with building a house on the site.
Cambridge City Council was forced to step in after brothers Colin and Terry Malik started digging foundations for a house on Ross Street, Romsey, which left two neighbouring properties unsafe in 2001.
Council workmen carried out emergency safety work and the entire road had to be closed.
Last year the brothers were taken to court by the council which claimed compensation for the work and the pair were left with a bill for £30,000. They were also each fined £5,000 by magistrates for contravening building regulations.
They failed in attempts to appeal against the court judgements.
The brothers have now put forward another planning application to the council for the house they originally intended to build. The application has been recommended for approval and will be heard in November but planning chiefs say they have already started building.
City council planning chief Peter Carter said the men's previous building record would not be a material consideration in its decision.
Mr Carter said: "The city council is conscious development appears to be proceeding although planning permission has not yet been granted.
"The planning department is continuing to monitor the development and an investigation officer is going down to the site on a regular basis.
"They have been advised that anything they are doing is at their own risk."
Previous court cases heard that during routine building inspections in July 2001 council officers discovered only six bricks were preventing a house next to the site from collapsing.
They immediately took over the site and closed the street for fear the house would fall down.
The Malik brothers declined to comment.
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word of mass distortion(WMD)written by people on hearsay .usual goverment
lies.....ask for the truth........
wow...I can't believe you Kollin. Stop trying to BS your way out of your own shit. I keep receiving emails about you still.
Thought you'd fucked off and died for good.
Chill out McMahon. Kollin and Terry are good people who work damn hard to feed their kids.
Read the truth here:
http://welovemrmalik.blogspot.com/
No Kolin, you and your brother work "damn hard" to feed your kids with ill gained money from shoddy building work, illegal tenancies, fraud, deception and extortion. Nothing you do is legal...really.
Hows your dead wife? She still alive with her cancer?
Sick moron.
How can you say such hateful things, McMahon? You clearly have no soul.
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