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Search the Public Notice PortalA building in Romford has been used as a pub, a restaurant which lost its licence after concerns of possible "modern-day slavery" and most recently a 10-person house in multiple occupation (HMO) which could face enforcement action.
This is the history of 290 North Street, including everything the Recorder is aware of.
The premises was formerly home to The Parkside pub, which closed around 2021.
Pubology's website notes that the site has been under the names The Parkside and The Squire before returning to The Parkside name again around 2015.
The site was later occupied by Neyzen Restaurant.
Home Office immigration officers visited the restaurant on May 1, 2025, after receiving intelligence that the business was employing illegal workers.
Seven employees were encountered and two were found to be working in breach of their visa conditions.
Officers also found sleeping arrangements and personal belongings in a shed at the rear of the restaurant.
A Home Office report said the discovery raised concerns about labour exploitation and "suspicion of modern-day slavery".
The business was handed an £80,000 civil penalty for employing the two workers.
Havering Council revoked Neyzen's premises licence following a hearing on March 11, 2026.
A Home Office representative told the hearing that revocation was the "necessary and proportionate outcome".
The site was subsequently taken over by a new venue called The Triangle.
An application was made by Anam Hussain for a premises licence allowing alcohol sales, live and recorded music and late-night refreshments.
However, 32 objections were lodged against the application and residents raised concerns including late-night noise and anti-social behaviour.
Anam said The Triangle was under "entirely new management" and was not connected with Neyzen.
Havering Council's licensing sub-committee refused the application following a hearing on June 5.
Meanwhile, the first floor of 290 North Street was being used as an HMO.
The property has nine bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms and is intended to accommodate up to 10 people.
A retrospective planning application was made in an attempt to "regularise an existing use", as planning permission had not been granted for the HMO but the council refused the application on October 5.
Planning officers said there was a lack of suitable internal and external communal areas and the proposal would fail to provide "an adequate living environment for all occupants".
Havering Council told the Recorder that use of the HMO does not automatically have to stop following the application's refusal but officers are looking at the next steps which "would comprise formal planning enforcement action in the form of an enforcement notice".
However, only a day after the refusal - on October 6 - a second retrospective application (P1151.26) was received by the council, again seeking permission to keep the 10-person HMO operating on the first floor.
The applicant is Mahbub Alum and the agent is Fraser Tugby from Tugby & Tugby Surveyors - the same on both applications.
Havering Council is set to make a decision on the new application by December 3 this year.
It is unclear at this time whether The Triangle is trading.
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