A 76-year-old is not accepting to hire a removals firm and move out of her home regardless of being confronted by her local council with demolition.
The grandmother has been handed a compulsory purchase order by Stoke-on-Trent City Council which means her home of 38 years in Middleport is set for demolition and the area landscaped. They’re saying the home is structurally unsafe.
But Mrs Sey has been given 1 month to try and save the Ennerdale Close house from bulldozers and how vowed she is keeping put. The former pottery worker bought the house brand new in 1973 and demands there’s nothing wrong with the land. She has a pacemaker and suffers regular neck spasms.
A couple of her fellow neighbours were also told their houses would be bull dozed but they employed removal companies and have already moved away.
The feisty OAP, who has six grandchildren, refuses to move no matter her age and states that the house can stand another 30 plus years. She says the property is full of happy memories and that if the council want her to leave, they’d have to carry her as she won’t move on her own accord.
The council statement found that the homes were constructed on a marl hole and presented Mrs Sey £83,000 for the home two years ago. A marl hole is ground underneath a house which is unstable but a surveyor reports that the property moved about an inch which is regular for houses.
Her son Robert claims that moving house could be too much for his mother and that she would suffer. They are fighting the CPO but if they fail, begin a new life abroad and hire shipping companies to move overseas.