just had squatters move in late yesterday to a house that backs onto me. The house is owned by Greenwich Council and has been boarded up for a year so not unexpected.
My neighbour said a couple of hours ago that they had got the power on and have arrived back with two vans and a large soundsystem!!
Whats the law like in these situations - how long does it legally take the Council to get them out? Just dont fancy my whole summer ruined by late night parties.
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Suggest you speak to LBG tomorrow - ring up the switchboard 020 8854 8888 and ask for the person who deals with empty properties in the borough.
Sounds fair to me
If that's broken the council can get legal or court action against them.
Or just keep requesting police presence each and everytime they cause nuisance.
Then just leave it to the authorities to hound them.
Mark Thomas gig in MPs home
pictures of the house
the Daily Mail and Mark Thomas is a weird combination.
Have kicked up a fuss with the neighbours and after the Chief Exec of the Council got involved LBGreenwich got the Court papers sorted out today apparently. Now have to wait about 3 weeks as Courts a bit slow at present.
Bang on right.
Actually had a woman last week hire a lorry and she admitted she was using it to move into a squat, unbelievable, if it had been my call she would not have got it, scabby bitch.
She spoke highly of you E !
;-)
Just think yourself lucky it aint a group of 30 pikies trying to claim your land and asking you why you are "in their endz". That happened to me before, was rather funny tbh.
The property has been standing empty for a year. If the council had any sense, rather than serving an eviction notice, they should send them a tennancy agreement and start getting rent out of them!
The property has been standing empty for a year. If the council had any sense, rather than serving an eviction notice, they should send them a tennancy agreement and start getting rent out of them![/quote]
Would not mind this but its a large house split into 4 or 5 flats. The Council says they have no money at present to do it up but they also i feel dont want to sell it. Catch 22. I sugested they sell it to a housing association with money. In another year they will make a decision!
"Political activist Thomas was followed on stage by fellow comic Wil Hodgson and ‘social surrealist poet’ Attila the Stockbroker, who recited a poem about asylum-seeking Daleks."
That would be this poem:
"Asylum seeking Daleks
are landing here at noon!
Why can't we simply send them back
or stick them on the moon?
It says here in the Daily Mail
they're coming here to stay -
The Loony Lefties let them in!
The middle class will pay......"
Has the Daily Mail finally discovered an self-effacing attitude? Hurrah!
LOL
I heard that the law was, as long as you don't force entry, it's legal to squat an empty property, and get the gas and leccy put on, and start paying the council tax and whatnot. If you last 12 years in said property, presumably without challenge, it becomes yours to keep.
I'm pretty sure this has actually happened about a decade ago.
I reckon it's possible to live next to perfectly legal neighbours from hell, and squatters who enrich the community.
Then again I read the Guardian on a Saturday.