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Post by felonious on Feb 21, 2016 9:27:43 GMT
Has there ever been a firm that attracts so much bad publicity? Interestingly I'm hearing the same story locally about 3 bed houses becoming 6 bed houses to house foreign workers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-35604776
Police say they have safety concerns about overcrowded houses in the town where one of Europe's largest sports retailers is based.
Sports Direct employs at least 3,500 agency workers at its site in Shirebrook, Derbyshire.
While filming in the town, the BBC was shown houses "carved into flats", including one with rooms partitioned down the middle of its windows.
Bolsover Council admitted it was caught off guard by the influx of workers.
Figures obtained by the BBC also show 46 housing complaints relating to overcrowding, repairs and conditions were made from April 2015 to 21 December last year - up from 16 in 2005 to 2006
The Sports Direct agency workers, largely employed in the company's warehouse, come mainly from Eastern European countries like Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania and Albania.
There are 500 permanent staff at the site.
The council estimates 1,500 people have moved to Shirebrook - which has a population of more than 13,000 - in the last four years, with many renting rooms in houses near the company's headquarters.
Police community support officer (PCSO) Steve Cathcart said: "There's been an influx of Eastern Europeans and the landlords that own the houses are carving these houses up into flats.
"Our concern is the fire risk, the safety to these people that are moving in."
Police said more than 30 properties in the area were a particular worry.
The police said one of the occupants in the house where two rooms had been visibly partitioned up to the windows works at Sports Direct, but added the resident had "no fire doors".
Bolsover councillor Karl Reid, who is responsible for community cohesion, admitted the authority had not adequately prepared itself for the sudden increase in Shirebrook's population.
"[On the window dividers] that is not acceptable and that will be investigated," he said.
"It was a gradual thing, then suddenly there was a massive spurt. I think that's where we may have got it wrong or we weren't on the ball for it, and I have to accept that."
The authority said it had introduced public spaces protection orders to stop people drinking and urinating on the town's streets.
It said it was also closing off a footpath near Sports Direct because of anti-social behaviour, including human defecation.
Since November, it said 20 fines have been handed out - 19 for drinking and one for urinating - to people in breach of these orders.
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Post by Northy on Feb 23, 2016 6:30:24 GMT
I never buy from that shite place, shop at a local family owned outlet, they all play sports and have some knowledge about the stuff they sell.
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Post by mumf on Feb 23, 2016 8:19:17 GMT
It provides hundreds of low paid jobs to migrant workers from across Europe who can then afford to " drink and urinate " in the street . This of course then causes housing shortages , educational problems , law enforcement issues , extra accident and emergency incidents and a whole host of other issues .
There are of course those millions of us who still buy the stores products regardless because they are cheap and excellent value for money . We are talking about poor families here who have no choice in the matter . Unless of course , you are an ultra sensitive style conscious serious athlete ,.... then in the main their is a definite need for its product in large volumes .
Taking the Labour perspective .....well the migrant worker issue is simply ignored in order for their blind allegience to Corbyn . He's actively encouraging more to come to this country , thus exasperating the problem .
Summarising then ....Its all here to stay . The migrants , the pissing in the streets , and the deathly silence attitude by Corbyn and his cronies . The Tories lead by Cameron also want them here and want us to stay a major part of Europe where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer .
You know what the choice is .
In ......Labour or Concervative or Liberal .
Out ...UKIP.
The party politics are there for every one to admire and condone . The blind biased foot soldiers will continue to spew their glutinous bile whilst the country slowly drowns under millions of tons of concrete and strife .....
The country is at a cross roads and many of you need to wake up as to what is happening on the streets ...If you continue to plough the same trough in terms of your political allegience then sooner or later the problems I have just described will directly effect you and your neighbourhood . That could be Hartford , Happisburgh or Hanley .
Social deprivation and an immigration deluge is here to stay unless you vote out of Europe and what's more ....You know it .
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