JNC open new squat. Gardeners required.

At 0900 hrs on Tues­day 31 March, mem­bers of ‘Jus­tice Not Cri­sis’ occu­pied the Beech­court Hotel, 201 Bris­tol Road, Edg­bas­ton, Birm­ing­ham, B5 7UB.

The 21 bed­room hotel has had a check­ered past over the years. It has been emp­ty for sev­er­al months hav­ing had its licensed removed by Birm­ing­ham City Coun­cil. Reg­u­lar police atten­dances to fights, alle­ga­tions of being used for immoral pur­pos­es, mas­sive debts and nui­sance to local res­i­dents all played a part in the hotel being aban­doned.

Local resident’s tell of noise nui­sance, burn­ing of car tyres and plas­tic, dump­ing of rub­bish and the ille­gal cut­ting down of trees as just some of the com­plaints.

The hotel with a vast area of land at the rear com­pris­ing of a lake com­plete with ducks, geese and fish has been run down over a long peri­od of time. The 21 bed­rooms once home for Birmingham’s home­less now con­sists of emp­ty rooms, a dam­aged and crum­bling build­ing, and rub­bish strewn gar­dens to the rear.

JNC intend to car­ry out a clean up oper­a­tion put the grounds to more sym­pa­thet­ic use and home peo­ple off the streets of Birm­ing­ham in a clean safe wel­com­ing envi­ron­ment.

The own­er has been con­tact­ed and nego­ti­a­tions are on going to ensure the prop­er­ty is put to a prop­er use.

Local res­i­dents will be noti­fied of the occu­pa­tion and ensured that our inten­tions are in the best inter­ests of the local com­mu­ni­ty and the build­ing and grounds.

Any­one wish­ing to pop in with ideas or sug­ges­tions is more than wel­come. We are in need of any­one able and will­ing to assist with the clean up of the gar­dens and entrance at the rear which are an eye­sore to local res­i­dents.

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