Good suggestion. The owner is Merton College and therefore I can’t just turn up and speak to them. I’m trying all sorts of methods to contact various people in their organisation that may help, but after an initial response, nothing.

The tenant is obviously closer to home, I have made the courtesy of writing to him and asking someone that knows him to contact me in his own time on his own terms. I don’t particularly want to doorstep a bloke that has been up since 4am.

I’ve been trying for two years to make contact and I’m bored of being ignored. I’ve been polite and totally understanding that if after we do have a half hour chat and the answer is ‘no’, then that is it.

I have no other way of applying a little pressure to get some dialogue going.