At the Plans Sub Committee meeting on Thursday 4 February 2016 Council Officers will be requesting permission to undertake enforcement action on the untidy land adjacent to 39 Southend Road, Beckenham BR3 1 TR. This will be welcome news to local people that signed a petition to get the site cleaned up. More information can be found at:
Council propose enforcement for long untidy land adjacent to 39 Southend Road
Published
Copers Cope Area Residents' Association (CCARA) & West Beckenham Residents' Association (WBRA) 
The cost of these works will be recovered from the site owner. If he/she does not pay the site will be sold to recover the debt.
Regards
Cllr Tickner
This was once the site of a home of one of the Cator family. Post WW2, it was the home of the novelist Jean Rhys. C. 2000, CCARA residents nearby had complained to LBB about the site but I recall that we were told that the owner lived overseas.
Can this be checked before £612k is spent on clearing the site have we assessed, what happen if the owner cannot be contacted. And, they can’t be contacted, might it not be better to offer the £612 to buy the site and get a developer to buy it from LBB and build badly needed new houses/flats?