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new social centre under threat of illegal & possibly violent eviction tomorrow

Wet Paint | 21.10.2008 18:37 | Free Spaces | Birmingham

This is to inform everyone as well as a callout for support - newly occupied community and arts centre in Worcester threatened with illegal and possibly violent eviction tomorrow.

This is a callout for support - if you can get here before midnight tonight and want to stay here, and eat with us and have a merry night then please do. After midnight, the last door will be fully barricaded. Anyone wishing to show support for this illegal eviction after this point please turn up at 13-17 Carden Street (off City Walls Road), Worcester WR1 around 11.30 tomorrow (WEDNESDAY), bring banners, cameras and camera-phones and provide positive public relations, because if they are forcing their way into our home IT IS ILLEGAL and we will not be scared by this bullshit.

So what happened...?
At about 15:30 today a bailiff arrived at the door with a letter on behalf of Keather Properties Ltd. THE LETTER IS TRANSCRIBED AT THE BOTTOM FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO READ THE BOLLOCKS NOTICE

We've been on the phone to the Advisory Service for Squatters, and they have confirmed that this is a totally illegal eviction. They have dealt with matters like this on a day to day basis for 30 years and understand the law a lot better than most commercial lawyers. They assure us any attempt to evict tomorrow will be criminal and we should defend ourselves with numbers and physical barricades. The 'exercising their rights' part applies to land, and not buildings. And seeing as a tent can apply as a building, an 8000 square ft commercial building certainly counts!

This would be a different story if we only lived here.. but for two solid weeks we have been putting all our love and energy into this place. We have had dreams become reality in creating a space where anyone is welcome and can come and create anything, anytime they want.

Communal cooking, circuit bending and sewing workshops, music practice, painting, and much much more was on the agenda - our gallery covered with work from many different local artists, and now we have been discovered we are being presented with illegal and violent threats.

This whole thing is new to us.. but the barricades are being strengthened and people are getting ready for a potentially long day of defending the Wet Paint building.

This is a callout for support - if you can get here before midnight tonight and want to stay here, and eat with us and have a merry night then please do. After midnight, the last door will be fully barricaded. Anyone wishing to show support for this illegal eviction after this point please turn up at 13-17 Carden Street (off City Walls Road), Worcester WR1 around 11.30 tomorrow (WEDNESDAY), bring banners, cameras and camera-phones and provide positive public relations because if they are forcing their way into our home IT IS A CRIMINAL OFFENCE and we will not be scared by this bullshit.

call us on 07965710354

Your friends at WET PAINT :)

.............blah blah blah

TAKE NOTICE

KEATHER PROPERTIES LTD (LANDOWNER) are the owners of the land on which you are trespassing and require you to leave. You are here without consent and are therefore trespassing and have no right to remain. You should therefore leave together with all your vehicles and goods by 1200 hours on the 22 day of October 2008.

If you fail to do so, KEATHER PROPERTIES LTD (LANDOWNER) will exercise its rights to self-help to remove you from the land and have instructed Baliffs from Swift Credit Services Limited to do so on its behalf. This right, under Common Law, is set out on Halsburys law of England. The police will attend if necessary to ensure that there is no breach of the peace.

Should this enforcement action by necessary , you will be held responsible for all costs of your removal and transportation and KEATHER PROPERTIES LTD (LANDOWNER) may take proceedings against you for the recovery of these costs.

KEATHER PROPERTIES LTD (LANDOWNER) will be entitled to take such action because you failed to respond to a request to leave the land on which you are currently trespassing.

DATED THIS 21 DAY OF OCTOBER 2008
SIGNED
LANDOWNER KEATHER PROPERTIES LTD
ADDRESS C/O ROBERT DAVIES PARTNERSHIP LTD.

Wet Paint
- e-mail: wetpaint@riseup.net

Comments

Display the following 6 comments

  1. good luck — lolwob
  2. worchester????? — bones
  3. Quite right — Stroppyoldgit
  4. re: worchester?? bones — fuckwit
  5. Todays events.... — Wet Paint
  6. Not good enough, plod! — Stroppyoldgit
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