Hello all.
I signed a lease on a rural commercial property having asked at the outset what the surrounding barns were used for. The answer was the storage of machinery mostly but generally they weren't used.
Three weeks after moving in, I turn up for work and the entire building, car park and my car are covered in fine white dust and grain husks. This lasts for several weeks and while I think it strange, I don't make an issue of it.
Three months later, I can't breathe or see. The dust, (which is from the farmer processing wheat in the barn next door) has accumulated to such proportions that it's made me ill. Except I didn't know what was making me so ill until I contacted an air quality testing company who briefed me on the EU and UK laws covering the farmers obligations to contain such lethal dust.
To cut a long story short,the farmer said he couldn't change anything (couldn't comply with the regulations) and at great cost to myself, I was freed from my lease without penalty. In return,I didn't report him or take further action.
I left on the terms of my 3 months rent up front being kept by the farmer to cover his costs while a new tenant was found. A new tenant is now in situ in another part of the building but she tells me that she intends taking over the unit I left too. This means the farmer has done OK. He still received rent, has a new tenant and allowed me to break my lease without penalty.
Having left on terms where I have not contacted environmental health or insisted on compensation for loss of business, and a whole host of other things, I'm now struggling to get my bond back.
Any thoughts? Thanks
I signed a lease on a rural commercial property having asked at the outset what the surrounding barns were used for. The answer was the storage of machinery mostly but generally they weren't used.
Three weeks after moving in, I turn up for work and the entire building, car park and my car are covered in fine white dust and grain husks. This lasts for several weeks and while I think it strange, I don't make an issue of it.
Three months later, I can't breathe or see. The dust, (which is from the farmer processing wheat in the barn next door) has accumulated to such proportions that it's made me ill. Except I didn't know what was making me so ill until I contacted an air quality testing company who briefed me on the EU and UK laws covering the farmers obligations to contain such lethal dust.
To cut a long story short,the farmer said he couldn't change anything (couldn't comply with the regulations) and at great cost to myself, I was freed from my lease without penalty. In return,I didn't report him or take further action.
I left on the terms of my 3 months rent up front being kept by the farmer to cover his costs while a new tenant was found. A new tenant is now in situ in another part of the building but she tells me that she intends taking over the unit I left too. This means the farmer has done OK. He still received rent, has a new tenant and allowed me to break my lease without penalty.
Having left on terms where I have not contacted environmental health or insisted on compensation for loss of business, and a whole host of other things, I'm now struggling to get my bond back.
Any thoughts? Thanks