A council has made two demands to the owner of a derelict water tower in Sheerness. Swale Borough Council has ordered the owner of the derelict Water Tower on Trinity Road in Sheerness to secure the site and clean it up.

The council has taken action against the London-based owner after the historic building fell into disrepair, becoming an eyesore and a magnet for antisocial behaviour. The notice gives the owner two months to improve the building’s safety and appearance.

The required work includes sealing all window openings with fresh, black-painted plywood, cleaning the building's exterior brickwork and removing all scorch marks, cutting back all overgrown vegetation to ground level, installing a secure, 2-metre-high, dark green wooden fence around the entire site boundary and removing

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