changed the course of our lives I had telephoned Tim Sargeant and said "I need  you to tell me that this is on the level..... because Before we signed the contracts that would totally change te if it's not I will never leave you" and he gave me his assurances that it was a Done Deal and we had nothing to fear and those words haunt me to this day! 

But.... why would he try and scam us without doing the deal he would be left with a pair of delipidated and  redundant agricultural barns with no commercial value or chance of ever being any different. never

 My name is David Jones, together with my wife I had the misfortune of entering into a contract  with Tim Sargeant which changed the course of our lives and took us all the way to our banging on the door of the Supreme Court of Appeal only to be turned away.

It has to be said that albeit we had been warned that if we had entered into a contract with Tim Sargeant we would be "Shaking Hands With The Devil"..... we took no heed and why would we, our solicitors had spent months working  on a contract that would benefit both of us and that contract was specific in its meaning, or so we thought! 

It had taken us until now to have realised that what Tim Sargeant had done was actually Fraud.... that man had manipulated us and reneged on a contract which was specific in that the purchase of the second parcel of land with our adjoining and newly converted stable block was dependant on City & Country getting planning consent for the conversion of their barns for a "minimum of 2 Residential dwellings" and that planning consent enacted the purchase of our property and set the deal in motion.... well, that is how it was meant to be.

Even today, after all this time and without explanation Tim Sargeant still maintains that he had complied with the terms of the contract and worked done nothing wrong.... we are not really sure how that works when the contract was specific being dependant on planning approval for 2 dwellings for it to be enacted, that is exactly what they got.... 2 dwellings, so if C&C went back to the planners and tried to enhance the number of dwellings from 2 that does not alter the contracted number... it remains as specified!

Now if the abuse had stopped at that point we could have lived with it... but it didn't. We had foolishly agreed with Tim Sargeant  that he could put a Restrictive Covenant (RC) on our retained land precluding agricultural livestock, save for equines, from being kept or housed within the party wall building, purely for the benefit of the planning application, but it had been agreed that the Restrictive Covenant would be dismantled once planning had been approved and at that point, whilst the RC involved both parties who had formulated the RC it was a simple process and  possible. 

It goes without saying that Tim Sargeant refused to remove the covenant but gave us his assurances that the RC would not be passed on to the purchasers of the barns and were naïve enough to have believed that he knew what he was talking about... okay so far no harm done at this point other than Tim Sargeant had reneged on the joint venture and we had lost out on any chance of the proposed Overage payments that had enticed us into the sale of our property but which had allowed C&C to Off Load a pair of redundant dilapidated barns that had no commercial value and very little prospect of ever getting planning approval for anything but in completing that deal Tim Sargeant had put C&C in funds to enable them to grow from little more than a back street builder, without much of a reputation into what they now describe as the UK's leading Property developer.... and all at our expense and we don't even get a mention..

Tim Sargeant, along with his fellow directors had sold the barns to private individuals to build their dream homes, C&C had claimed that it was not commercially viable for them to do the conversion themselves, presumably owing to the overage payment that we should have benefitted from, albeit we would ask why the same deal had not been extended to the purchasers of the barns with the overage obligation being passed on, but it wasn't and it's a bit late to look at that now albeit C&C should not have completed or been allowed to have completed on the purchase of our property.

Now in selling those barns from under us C&C had also passed on the obligation for the purchasers of those barns to erect a 1 metre high stock proof fence along the boundary line which was a specific measured distance of 4 metre running parallel with the party wall building. Tim Sargeant had sub divided the obligation by mirroring the Barn 2 given that the fecning obligation was dependant on the party wall building being dismantled whilst Barn 1 the fence was a requirement to sub divide the properties.

Logic would say that C&C would have erected our contracted 1 metre high stock proof fence thereby setting the boundary line for barn1... but they didn't, instead they spent far more money supplying and erecting a 2.4 metre high Heras site fence along our boundary line being a distance of 4 metres from our new neighbours boundary.

it should be pointed out and remembered that the ownership of the 4 metre srip of land was in the hands of C&C and would not become ours unless the Barn 2 Party wall building was dismantled.

It is clear that albeit Tim Sargeant had granted us a license to use that 4 metre strip of land, which was in the ownership of C&C until the party wall building was dismantled bearing in mind that their was no obligation for them to have ever dismantled that building especially as the new owners had designated it as a sports complex with swimming pool and  it was not until that point that C&C were obliged to erect the 1 metre high stock fence it is clear that the deceitful  fucking arse ole was playing games... why didn't they just erect the stock fence and return the 4 metres of land. 

When the owners of Barn 2 got planning consent for the swimming pool and complex it became clear that the building would never be dismantled... Tim Sargeant actually wrote to the owners of Barn 1 offering to sell them the 4 metres of land that was designated to be returned to our ownership that is the type of devious decietful bastards they are.

The Barn 1 owners, the Nicol's recognised the conflict and refused the purchase but advised us of what TS was doing, when we confronted him he offered to sell us our land!

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from this point its all under construction to be edited

Our dealings with Tim Sargeant have cost us over One Million Pounds   and had taken many years of our lives leading us right up to banging on the doors of the Supreme Courts only to be turned away!

We had been Mugged in Broad Daylight!

But I had been warned that if I entered into a contract with Tim Sargeant then I would be "Shaking Hands with the Devil" and to our cost I didn't listen and continue to pay the price.

It is our consider opinion that Tim Sargeant had set us up for the sole purpose of acquiring our land and building to put City & Country in a position to be able to "Off Load" a Pair of Redundant Barns that had been refused planning approval for conversion to residential dwellin and had no real prospect of ever getting planning consent for them to be converted to residential dwellings and we were mugged.

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