A notorious Bristol property owner has been fined more than £10,000 for leaving three of his many properties across the city to become overgrown, fly-tipped eyesores, and the council have warned him they’ll do it again in a month if he doesn’t sort the sites out.
Mushtaq Ahmed owns at least 19 properties and sites across Bristol and has been the subject of campaigns from local residents and previous council prosecutions for leaving many of them run-down, not-maintained, secure or cleared so they attract fly-tippers and graffiti-taggers.
Now, Bristol City Council has taken him to court for the second time in 13 months over the state of three of his properties - the abandoned, derelict and boarded up Gainsborough pub in Lockleaze, the empty and partially-derelict Kernow Building in St Werburghs, and a site in the heart of Knowle West at Leinster Avenue.
