The occupation of a person’s non-residential property without their permission is not a crime in England
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edit: TIL! Thanks for reminding me that if something seems far out, chances are that my understanding just hasn’t caught up.
According to government guidance, squatters can apply to become the registered owners of a property if they have occupied it continuously for 10 years, acted as owners for the whole of that time and had not previously been given permission to live there by the owner.
Interesting loophole. Can you prove the squatters were not given verbal permission by the owner?
Also, the fact that a group of people can help themselves to a property that is vacant for good reason and have legal protection is kinda bullshit.
I’d say its a lot less bullshit than having empty spaces while people are homeless.
It’s a restaurant, not exactly set up for accommodation.
Interesting. The title says hotel
The British are weird with names.
Hopefully this starts to shed some light on the travesty that is ‘squatters rights’. Squatters shouldn’t have rights.
Yeah, a bunch of people should be disenfranchised arbitrarily by someone on the internet! Let’s go! Oh yeah who cares about people anyway!
Where the hell are you getting any of that from what I said? I am saying that if you don’t own a building, and otherwise have no rights to that building, just because you barge in and lock the door doesn’t mean you should own the building or have any rights to that building whatsoever. The police should go in and arrest you.
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