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If the landlord has taken possession of the premises, by not letting customers retrieve their bikes aren’t they withholding property that isn’t theirs? Stealing, in other words.
Depends how they gave notice, they most likely had an agreement with the previous owners of Evans and have sent multiple notices to the old addresses which have obviously been ignored. If all they had in the way of communication from Sports Direct was show boating and demanding lower rent then locking the premises and taking everything on site as payment of rent due makes sense. I've had to arrange similar in my past job for landlords of an office block, locked out a solicitors firm and must have caused countless damage and disruption to clients they had by extension but if they made a choice to ignore notices continue trading and not vacate or communicate what are they to do.
If the landlord has taken possession of the premises, by not letting customers retrieve their bikes aren’t they withholding property that isn’t theirs? Stealing, in other words.