Warning over illegal basement
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A LANDLORD in Xuhui District has been barred from selling or leasing his downtown apartment after illegally digging a 50-square-meter basement that damaged the foundation of the residential building.
The owner of Room 103 on No.165-A Changshu Road dug a 2-meter-deep basement beneath the apartment in April 2015 that damaged the walls of other apartments.
The illegal basement is at least 50 square meters and covers two bedrooms and the kitchen, a neighbor surnamed Chen said.
He said the owner had disappeared for over six months after residents complained and expressed concerns over the safety of the building to the district government.
Another resident surnamed Qin who lives above Room 103, said she noticed workers taking away large pieces of concrete and mud out from the room after 8pm every day in April.
She reported the matter to the property management company which discovered the under-construction basement. The company also found that part of the load-bearing walls had been torn down.
The Yongfu property management company then issued notices to the owner, who was not identified, thrice to tell him to restore the structure, but he simply vanished, said Wang Yancheng, general manager of the company.
Wang said the district’s housing authority had come to evaluate the structure of the building and found that the load structure had been damaged by the illegal basement construction.
The Xuhui District urban management authority has now ordered the owner to rebuild it to the original layout as the structure posed risks to the 20 households living in the six-floor building.
The owner has been given a time of two weeks, failing which, law enforcement officers will forcibly fill up the basement — with the bill given to him.
“The owner has been trying to sell the apartment with the basement for profit. We have seen real estate agents taking customers to see the apartment,” Qin said.
“The average price of the community is over 80,000 yuan per square meter,” she claimed.
Qin’s own apartment walls have been damaged and a deep 2-meter-long crack can be clearly seen.
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