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Article: Shock as flat for four found to have 10 beds; Landlord let people sleep in cupboards and living room in dirty ground floor home
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- October 27, 2004
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A LANDLORD who applied for a multiple occupancy licence for four
people was found cramming 10 beds into the damp, dirty flat.
When fire brigade officers called to inspect the lower ground
floor flat in Garnethill, Glasgow, they found it had beds in store
rooms and the living room.
The four-bedroomed flat also has two store rooms, a living room
and a large hallway.
Council inspectors, who also checked out the flat to ensure living
conditions were satisfactory, described it as "damp" and "filthy".
New laws were brought in four years ago to tighten regulations on
landlords after an Evening Times campaign following the deaths of two
Glasgow students, James Fraser and Daniel Heron, in a fire ...