Thermal imaging camera reveals shocking extent of illegal 'beds in sheds' housing for immigrants built by rogue …

Harrow Council found 319 suspicious sheds and garages emitting heat At least 1,000 could be living in converted outbuildings without permission Plane criss-crossed streets, picking up heat signals from outbuildings Analysis of images from night flight revealed suspicious dwellings They can be spotted because sheds aren't insulated so heat escapes

By Martin Robinson

PUBLISHED: 05:48 EST, 4 March 2014 | UPDATED: 06:37 EST, 4 March 2014

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Hundreds of rogue landlords in one London borough are illegally renting out 'beds in sheds' to immigrants on an industrial scale.

Harrow Council chartered a plane with thermal imaging to fly over streets picking up heat and found four times more 'suspicious' outbuildings than expected.

Aerial photos revealed that instead of 75 suspected illegal developments at the bottom of gardens or in garages, there were actually at least 319.

Welcome to Harrow: This is a thermal image of a street in the London borough. At the bottom of the picture is a road, and then a row of houses with heat escaping from windows. The circled building is at the bottom of a garden, and is believed to be a illegally converted outbuilding housing immigrants

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