[GrimUpNorth]

Some years ago a couple of my team met a developer on site to do some background noise measurements. He told them the owner of the derelict house adjacent to the site they wanted to develop wasn't for selling but it wouldn't be an issue 'in a couple of weeks' and as if by magic it burned down soon after.

I think this sort of thing goes on pretty often, the number of old mills that've burned down in Bradford over the years. I think some owners see it as a victimless crime as fire insurance is often the last thing they stop paying.