Glennys estate agents and Mr Charles Boniface

From someone who lost their house to compulsory purchase...

"I consider Glennys to be rogue agents having tried to dupe us into selling our property in Basildon. One smartly dressed man came along one morning and spoke to my mother in the garden, saying we were best to sell to them as Basildon development corporation (the government) were putting an open water course through.

It's just as well we didn't, as it never happened. Although strangely enough, the land is now industrial building land, and wait for it, were paid "parkland" price when compulsory purchased - peanuts.

On the subject of compulsory purchase, another shady character was without doubt, after having the displeasure of meeting him, the development corporation chairman, and ex-solicitor Mr Charles Boniface.

My father was on his death bed and Mr Boniface wanted to put a road outside his bedroom window through our garden. He blatantly informed me that if we didn't let him come thorugh with this road, he would do so anyway under the compulsory purchase scheme, and that no-one would want to buy the house afterwards after the road was built."