Turned off street lights

Hi

Can anyone help me with this problem, I'm hoping some pof you may have heard of this before as I am at a loss !!

I own a property in a "lomas" which I believe is a "part of a community" which consists of 8 streetsbuilt on the loutskirts of an already existing village and we are looking to start up our own community very shortly. We all have our COH's and have all been paying our Sumo Taxes for two years now. The builder left site a while ago and out street lights were running on the generator (paid for by the builder) until they were switched over to mains electric power by Iberdrola.

Recently, the street lights were all turned off in our streets (only the new development, not the main village) and no-one knew why. We have been told it is because there is an outstanding "debt" between either the builder and Iberdrola or the local council and Iberdrola of around £300,000 for unpaid electric supply. One member of our community has been advised that we should not start up our community as if we do, we will inherit this debt. 

We have all individually tried to find out from the town hall, Iberdrola, the Builder what we can about this alleged "debt" but until now none of us have had any luck.

Any ideas on how we can sort this out?

Any help or advice would be gratefully appreciated.

Troyally

I don't know where you are, troyally, but you need to get a good solicitor to do a search for any outstanding debts before you even think of starting up a community.  Any debts (to the electric or water company not paid by the developers) will still be extant and those of you who have these facilities may be liable to pay them.  Although the builders cannot charge you for supplying these utilitiies, some of them will try it on.  Look for threads on here by Fly380 regarding builders who have done this and the many problems that have been caused because of it (Iberdrola not reinstating electricity until previous bills are paid, for example).

Hope it all gets sorted out for you but you do not good, legal advice on this debt recovery.

The Local Council has an obligation to produce to you all the information related to this. Yes, I would advise you to hire a good lawyer to request the information on your behalf. Once you have it, he/she will be able to see what is the best procedure to solve the problem. You really need to obtain that information directly from Local Council.

Best regards,

Maria

Thanks for those replies about my street lights, very helpful as usual

Troyally

A pleasure.