Hollywood actor sues UK council in bitter row over 500-year-old manor house
US player Hopwood Depree is legal against the British Council to gain the ownership of the 500 -year -old Ata house.
Hopwood Hall in Middleton, Büyük Manchester, Mr. Depree’s Rochdale District Council (RBC), eight years ago, accused of breaking an agreement made after breaking an agreement.
In the court documents, Mr. Depree claimed that the Council had “desperately survived” the hall, which has been unfair since the Council’s ownership in the late 1980s.
This led to an agreement in which Mr. Depree can buy the property for £ 1 as long as Mr. Depree received permission to plan.
Authorized, “Events, hospitality, tours, training, cafes and shops” to be used for the hall was given in October 2022, he said.
However, the actor said that in November last year, the RBC and his volunteer team had removed him from the building and that he had refused to convey the ownership of the property since then.
Mr. Depree claims that RBC has broken legal agreements, saying that he should get a planning permission for physical work, but claims that he has not mentioned it before.
In a witness statement, “I never realized that any physical work that requires a different type of planning permission would be necessary or the approval of the building listed will be part of this process.”
A RBC spokesman refused to comment on the current legal procedures, but from November onwards, the Council decided not to extend the length of the agreement because the Council has not “applicable business cases and financing strategy”.
He also said that the RBC has invested £ 1.7 million in the building and that it has been acted to “to protect public money that has been invested so far”.
Mr. Depree, RBC’s delays due to delays disappeared more than £ 500,000 allocated for renewal and the morale of his team was “extremely low”, he said.
The Supreme Court wants the judge to declare that he has fulfilled his obligations within the scope of the agreement and therefore has the right to property.
In his testimony, he said, ım I wouldn’t leave my life in the United States, I wouldn’t leave my family and friends behind, I would not have deposited my personal savings if I had been part of the obligation before moving to a new country and the permits of physical work and the listed building approvals before having Hopwood Hall. ” He said.
During the agreement in 2017, II. CLASS*The building listed is expected to become destructive in five to 10 years, he said.
In the 1420s, he was built by his ancestors who lived there for 500 years before falling from the property of his family because his heirs were killed in the First World War.
When Mr. Depree learned from the hall in 2013, he was worried about his injustice and decided to restore herself, dedi he said in the court documents.
“In 2013, I immediately inspired Hopwood Hall from the moment I first entered.
Im Although he was unattended, I could see his beauty, history and spirit.
“It seemed like a place that could resurrect and reopen the community when visitors can join us closely and from afar.”
Mr. Depree added the agreement that RBC is “shocked in his behavior”, which he claimed to “never explain to me why he decided to withdraw me.
