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Friday December 20, 2019
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Disgraced businessman cries foul at Council action By Staff Reporters A DEWSBURY councillor has raised concerns of a Kirklees Council witch-hunt against disgraced local businessman Tahir ‘Terry’ Zaman. Mr Zaman appeared in court in November on fly-tipping charges brought by the local authority, relating to land in Pepper Royd Street, Eastborough, which is subject to planning applications for a range of apartments in the derelict mill buildings.
That case was adjourned for trial in February. Mr Zaman was back at Kirklees Magistrates’ Court last Thursday (December 12) when similar charges were brought relating to another piece of land he owns at Caulms Wood Road. That case has been adjourned until March. However The Press has been sent documents showing that Dewsbury East Labour councillor Cathy Scott raised a “formal complaint” with the council’s Strategic Director of Economy
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and Infrastructure, Karl Battersby, over Kirklees’s approach to the convicted slum landlord, who already had a range of offences to his name – including fly tipping – before he was disqualified as a company director for six years, back in March. Coun Scott (right), who is a member of the Heavy Woollen planning sub-committee wrote: “Mr Zaman is not happy that the council are continually targeting him on issues.” Continued on p2
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