Chester & District Housing Trust has won the right to evict a family with a long history of anti-social behaviour. This included an armed response unit being deployed to the property and a dangerous dog being shot dead by police, a drive by petrol bombing and a 10-hour armed siege.
Weapons recovered from the house included a replica fire arm and cross bow.
His Honour Judge Halbert, the designated civil judge for Cheshire, sitting at Chester Castle, has given Chester & District Housing Trust an immediate possession order against Mrs Josephine Harvey in respect of her tenancy of the Trust’s house at Brentwood Road, Blacon. The judge also made five year Anti Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) against Mrs Harvey and her husband, Granville Harvey (Snr), imposing numerous conditions as to their behaviour and excluding them from the Handbridge area with immediate effect.
The Trust undertook not to enforce the possession order until after Christmas, on January 8 2009. Mr and Mrs Harvey’s ASBOs will also exclude them from the Blacon area after that date until November 13, 2013.
The Judge also made five year ASBOs against their three sons, Liam, Seamus and Granville Harvey (Jnr) imposing numerous conditions as to their behaviour and excluding them from the Blacon, Handbridge, Newton and Lache areas of Chester, all with immediate effect.
The orders follow a long history of anti-social behaviour by Mr and Mrs Harvey and their three sons which included a police siege of the property in March of this year.
A spokesperson from CDHT’s Tenancy Action Team said: “This sends out a strong message to the community that the Trust and police will take whatever action is necessary to ensure that the occupants and neighbours of its 6,200 properties are not subjected to the intolerable anti-social behaviour of a small and selfish minority.”
