Welcome to a 'behind-the-scenes' look at PHD Modular Access Services Limited
Or is it PHD Access Ltd or PHD Group Services Ltd or...?
You may be surprised to learn that over 30 companies are registered with at least one member of the Dwyer family as director or/and shareholder. Including PHD Access Properties Ltd which now owns Padd Farm a 32 acre estate in Egham, Surrey (pictured above) worth around £10m. PHD Access would have you say Padd Farm is located in prestigious Virginia Water, but its ‘Egham’ with an Egham postcode.
Why have a limited company hold title deeds to a property? Is it easier to sell-on? Or is it to save on stamp duty? Perhaps it's so the asset can be transferred to another company to reduce tax? It may well be a good idea to adopt a multi-company approach to restrict financial exposure in the event of a disaster. But PHD Access staff with performance related pay will say profits can be manipulated to ensure only the Dwyer family benefit.
Mr Beach, the former owner of Padd Farm, who according to Runnymede Borough Council breached several planning regulations and who after 36 years of tenure, was forced to sell the farm in order to pay the council compensation for the planning breaches.
Mr Beach was accused of storing a variety of commercial goods such as storage containers, skips and scaffolding without the prescribed permissions. But if you look at the top picture, it looks like a regular well kept working farm with nothing untoward going on. Certainly nothing on a grand scale.
Long story short, Mr Beach had to pay the council £1.4m in compensation or go to prison. Mr Beach did indeed go to prison as demanded he do so by Runnymede Borough Council, but this is a story for another day.
The question is: How are PHD Access getting away with the exact same breaches in planning which Mr Beach went to prison for? In fact, significantly more breaches!
Look at the arial images and you can clearly see that PHD Access are flaunting planning and probably environmental regulations on an industrial level.
The clue is in the name Padd ‘Farm’. It’s a ‘farm’ and not a commercial storage area or steel works.
Using the Runnymede Borough Council planning portal. Anyone can search and find a certificate of lawfulness for about 4 acres of hard standing at Padd Farm for the movement of agricultural vehicles. As it applied to Mr Beach when he owned the land. But this wasn’t enough for PHD Access who have concreted over a further half acre or so of grassland and used it for commercial storage without applying for planning permission or notifying the environmental agencies.
Perhaps PHD Access are using secret hand gestures at Runnymede Borough Council and backchannels to grease the wheels of industry, making the Dwyer family immune from prosecution while gradually concreting over the whole farm?
It could be that PHD Access have applied to have the planning restrictions 'lifted' retrospectively. In which case the Council should have also offered Mr Beach a retrospective solution before they put him in prison, don’t you think?
PHD Access had submitted plans to turn Padd Farm into an industrial complex. But the plans were refused because it’s an ‘agricultural farm’ on the ‘green belt’. However, it seems PHD Access are going ahead with their heavy industry plans anyway.
The Dwyer family have erected high barricades to stop passers-by seeing what’s going on and turned the farm into a type of Fort Knox. A strong indication that they are hiding a lot of environmentally illegal activity at the farm.
If you know how PHD Access are getting away with the blatant flaunting of planning regulations and how they are getting around the existing enforcement notices - post a comment or send us an email.
Padd Farm is where 71 year old Mr Beach lived for over 36 years and where his family including his grandchildren were brought up.
As well as taking great pleasure from the pensioner’s eviction. PHD Access successfully applied to make Mr Beach Bankrupt (see image).
What did Mr Beach do to justify this type of behaviour from the Dwyer family at PHD Access?
Well, Mr Beach had an articulated container parked at Padd Farm full of expensive equipment which he wanted back after his eviction. But PHD refused so Mr Beach sent PHD Access an invoice and payment terms.
Instead of doing the decent thing and returning Mr Beach’s equipment. PHD Access got together with lawyers Mishcon de Reya LLP and instigated spurious High Court proceedings against Mr Beach.
PHD Access were aware that Mr Beach was living in a caravan with little left over from the forced sale of Padd Farm. Therefore, Mr Beach was not likely to be able to afford legal representation to defend bogus litigation and by making him bankrupt would in addition stop Mr Beach from issuing his own genuine legal proceedings against PHD Access for the loss of his equipment.
Even if Mr Beach successfully sued PHD Access and they were ordered to compensate Mr Beach for the equipment. The money would go back to PHD Access via the Official Receiver as PHD Access are the sole petitioner to the bankruptcy order. Clever eh.
Now that Mr Beach is a bankrupt. There is little Mr Beach can do about his equipment. PHD Access can simply sell it and enjoy the proceeds (if they haven’t done so already).
What a disgusting thing to do to a pensioner.
PHD Access had no qualms in making an innocent pensioner bankrupt for simply asking for his own equipment to be returned. And to rub salt into the wound - PHD Access KEPT the pensioner's equipment!
Outrageous behaviour for a company and family who regularly deal with Blue Chip clients from around the world.
Do PHD Access owe you goods or money?
Beware. There are no limits to the depths the Dwyer family will go to KEEP your GOODS or KEEP your MONEY!
THIS is an shocking news article highlighting the way PHD Access have treated Mr and Mrs Beach (both pensioners).
Or CLICK HERE
UPDATE
Mr Beach has subsequently received his articulated container back. But it was ‘empty’ apart from a large, wheeled mechanics toolchest which should of contained thousands of pounds worth of tools but the toolchest was also ‘empty’.
Along with being immune to prosecution by the council. The Dwyer family don’t need to pay business rates to the council (see graphic).
Padd Farm is owned by a business (PHD Access Properties Ltd). Buildings and storage areas are being used for commercial purposes. Yet, business rates do not apply if you are PHD Access. Why is this?
Who have they got ‘in their pocket’ at the council? Who can simply credit over 100k in council tax while the rest of us must work hard to pay council tax or go to prison if we don’t?
Mr Beach was the go-to man for business start-ups. He provided economical workspace for entrepreneurs. Mr Beach had permission to sublet and was paying business rates at near on £2k a week, for years. Which Runnymede Borough Council accepted with open arms. But the council are not demanding any business rates from the Dwyer family. Why is this? What’s going on?
Readers will be interested to know that in the past Runnymede Borough Council often sent homeless families to Padd Farm for emergency housing. The council had no issues paying Mr Beach rental of his caravans as the costs were a lot less than say, flats. Mr Beach was saving the council a fortune and in addition Mr Beach was paying the council ‘non-domestic’ rates or business rates. A win-win for the council which went on for literally decades.
One day, the council decided that what was being paid to Mr Beach was ‘illegal’ along with all other income he and his family were receiving. Not sales less costs and taxes. Just sales. Income which Mr Beach was paying business rates with.
The council’s barristers worked out that the total sales for the Beach family for a 6-year period was £1.4m and with their courtroom buddies demanded it to be paid immediately. Mr Beach didn’t have £1.4m so they put him in prison along with his wife who had nothing to do with the day-to-day running. Mr and Mrs Beach received a combined prison sentence of 13 years (which was later quashed as the sentence itself was illegal).
Records show Mr Beach’s son’s girlfriend was even prosecuted by the council because she used a kitchen extension which was allegedly erected without planning permission. The council spend thousands to drag this poor woman through the court system. But the judge in this case could see what was going on and awarded the council just £1 compensation.
The council took advantage of Mr and Mrs Beach being imprisoned and hired a receiver from Azets & Wilkins Kennedy LLP called Louise Brittain. This lady (with her heavies) evicted all tenants. Caravan tenants who brought up their families and small business owners who started their businesses at the farm. All had to vacate Padd Farm to make way for the Dwyer family.
The question is: Why don’t PHD Access need to pay business rates at Padd Farm?
If you know why PHD Access don't need to pay business rates at Padd Farm, post a comment or send us an email.
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FOOTNOTE
One has to ask oneself what the justification was for the Dwyer family to purchase a property with such a long history of planning breaches, enforcement notices and adverse media coverage which will be online forever.
When dealing with the disposal of property. The appointed bailiff or receiver is duty bound by law to raise as much as possible. Did this happen? Mr Beach was forced to pay £1.4m from the sale of his farm but there was next to nothing left over for him and his family.
Do the sums yourself; Padd Farm includes a 3 bedroomed detached bungalow, garages, two extra-large buildings with commercial planning permission and several auxiliary buildings. Four acres of planning approved vehicular hard standing. A further 8 acres of working farmland plus a 20-acre grazing field (not shown in the top image).
How did the Dwyer family manage to purchase a 32 acre estate located in one of the most expensive places to buy property for such a low amount of money? If you know, please post a comment or send us an email.
