Two couples have triumphed in a four-year row with a neighbour by using squatters’ rights.

Another staple of London’s nightlife is gone and has already been taken over by squatters. Squatters have since occupied the building and have even placed a legal notice in the window.

An artisan potter has been locked in a four-year battle with a duck-loving painter who sparked a bitter boundary dispute over a narrow stream dividing their gardens. But his peaceful life creating ceramics in his garden studio exploded into chaos in 2020 when new neighbour Dee Narga, 56, moved in behind him and laid claim to the babbling brook that runs between the two properties.

A stinking huge dump of fly-tipped waste in a Walsall street is attracting rodents and is regularly set on fire.

A former Wetherspoon pub in a building owned by no-nonsense business tycoon Lord Sugar was overtaken by squatters within days of it calling last orders, but they were swiftly evicted.

Plans to regenerate a derelict former sports bar ‘occupied by squatters’ in Northampton town centre rumble on – with the site now up for sale for nearly £1 million.

Luciano Gulshan and his dad Janil got involved in an “over-hyped dispute” about a car park security gate with neighbours living in the £1m-plus flats next to their multimillion-pound mews house in central London.

A homeowner whose property was taken over by squatters finally has revenge – after it was left with poo and a chilling message.

A man has been praised for playing squatters at their own game after they moved into his home and refused to leave.

In the shopping streets and housing estates of the South London town of Croydon, some once-derelict buildings are slowly coming back to life.

A farming couple who are facing eviction from land their family has occupied for centuries have moved to highlight the plight of tenant farmers. David Yates first took over the tenancy on Earls Farm on Stitch-Mi-Lane in Harwood in 1995, with wife Karen having also run a beauty business and cattery from the site.

Donna Kent inherited the home after her father died in 2012 – but she’s only recently been able to go inside due to a squatter living there. The squatter, Kyle, said he meant no harm by living in the New York home and he’d been long awaiting a visit from the family.

RESIDENTS at a Trowbridge block of flats say an underground car park used by homeless people has become ‘unsafe’ for their families.

Fed-up residents living near a stretch of scenic seafront say campervan owners should be charged – to stop the area from becoming a “squatter camp”. Locals living near the Shingle Bank on Kent’s Isle of Sheppey say many mobile homeowners practically live on the seafront and ruin it by urinating on the beach.

Squatters are occupying the former London headquarters of film giant 20th Century Fox in the heart of Soho, the Standard can reveal. A group have made their home in the five storey building and warned they cannot be evicted without a court order.

Fed-up residents living near a stretch of scenic seafront say campervan owners should be charged – to stop the area from becoming a “squatter camp” Locals living near the Shingle Bank on Kent’s Isle of Sheppey say many mobile homeowners practically live on the seafront and ruin it by urinating on the beach.

The group of at least six people have boarded up windows and put up a “legal warning” defending their occupation of the Grade II-listed York & Albany hotel and gastropub near Regent’s Park. The BBC understands they want to use the space as a community art cafe.

Fed-up residents living near a stretch of scenic seafront say campervan owners should be charged – to stop the area from becoming a “squatter camp”.

Fed-up residents living near a stretch of scenic seafront say campervan owners should be charged – to stop the area from becoming a “squatter camp”.

A fight is underway to reclaim a former nightclub building taken over by “raving” protesters.
Dartford council says it is working with administrators to evict a group who have taken up residence in the former ATIK venue in Dartford.

A judge has told squatters they can remain in Baring Hall Hotel for the time being, after a possession order was refused.

A judge has told squatters they can remain in Baring Hall Hotel for the time being, after a possession order was refused.

Polo is no ordinary squatter. The builder, 32, enters empty properties and changes the locks, but then he pays the utility bills, renovates and even installs solar panels. Once the preserve of society’s poorest, now even those holding down jobs are turning to squatting amid skyrocketing rents and high property prices.

Amid soaring rents, some are turning to the UK’s many vacant properties for shelter. Could this be a return to the 70s and 80s? The postcode was an exclusive area of London and the four-storey, period building was something an estate agent might describe as “magnificent” and “imposing”.

A squatter living in a shack made of junk by one of Britain’s most famous stations has claimed he is ready for the ‘fight of his life’ when the council tries to evict him. Leo Fieran, 55, is locked in a bitter court battle with Camden Council over the rubbish-strewn plot he has lived in for nearly 20 years next to Kings Cross Station.

A Southampton councillor has described squatters living in the former Blockbuster store as “good, decent and reasonable”. Portswood ward councillor John Savage made the comments after the Echo revealed around five people are living in the store in Portswood.

A squatting builder who won a £400,000 house that belonged to a pensioner for free in a landmark legal victory has sold it for £540,000, it is claimed. Keith Best took over the empty three-bedroom property in Ilford after spotting it vacant in 1997.

A parking row has flared in Bayswater after a father and son claimed squatters’ rights over mansion spaces. Luciano Gulshan and his father Janil are locked in a legal fight over three parking spaces and a security gate with their neighbours near Lancaster Gate.

Members of a group occupying a building without permission are to be evicted following a court order. The group called S.I.S.T.E.R has been occupying the Old County Library in Stroud, challenging the council’s use of the building.

A man has successfully reclaimed his house two years after it was sold without his knowledge. Reverend Mike Hall discovered his Luton home had been sold after his identity was stolen in 2021.

Locals have raised concerns about potential squatting in a former care home on the edge of the city. Neighbours have reported seeing a number of people living in the currently vacant Northgate House in Hellesdon.

Seven bailiffs acting as “Representatives of the Owner” descended on Brick by Brick’s former offices in George Street on Saturday to evict the squatters who had occupied the building for almost two weeks.

The squatters inside the shuttered Walthamstow Empire were removed today in a joint operation by council officers and the police. Grace Williams, Waltham Forest Council leader, stated that “all squatters were removed thanks to the swift action of local police in partnership with council officers.”

The squatters inside the shuttered Walthamstow Empire were removed today in a joint operation by council officers and the police. Grace Williams, Waltham Forest Council leader, stated that “all squatters were removed thanks to the swift action of local police in partnership with council officers.”

A group of squatters calling themselves “Reclaim Croydon” has moved into the abandoned offices of Brick by Brick in Croydon, to show the high and mighty who control the borough that the people of Croydon have had enough.

Police officers have confirmed people are living inside the former Gamet Bearings factory in Hythe Station Road, Colchester. Bedding and other personal items were found during searches of the building, which includes five sections.

Dr Veena Paes, a public health researcher, is embroiled in a bitter court battle with her neighbours over accusations of stealing a 20ft strip of garden between their homes. The case involves accusations of a “land grab” in a leafy suburban street.

On a wintry night in November, Bill, Robin, and around 18 others entered the disused Sisters of Mercy convent building in London’s East End. The building, with a history of resistance, once sheltered the area’s homeless and is just a stone’s throw from Cable Street.

A self-confessed “land pirate” has taken over a patch of abandoned land for his own, but the neighbouring farmer has blocked him with rotting silage bales. Neil Parker, from Cardigan, Ceredigion, claims he is entitled to the land due to its long-term neglect.

Squatters have taken over an old Barclay’s bank in a South London neighbourhood. After a resident spotted a note on the door of the Barclays bank, they posted the notice in a local Facebook group.
The Barclay’s bank is located in Catford and closed in 2021. The building had been left unoccupied and on March 27, a Facebook user posted a picture of the note that was now visible on the door. The note read: “This is not a “residential building” within the meaning of section 144, Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishing of Offenders Act 2012 because it was not designed or adapted, before the time of our entry, for use as a place to live.”

A commercial property in Cornwall has been labelled an eyesore after years of fly-tipping that has plagued the land around it. The building, located on Dudnance Lane, in Pool, is abandoned and has been subject to squatters, reports of arson and piles of rubbish dumped outside.
Steven Wooldridge, who lives in Camborne, was walking in the area earlier this week and could not believe the state of it. With black bags, mattresses, wood and other items strewn across the forecourt of the building, he said things have gradually got worse over the years since the former electrical building closed.

A mum with disabilities who was forced naked from her Easton home in October has supported squatters who have now occupied the property in protest. Ruth Nestor hopes to be able to move back in after what she says was a ‘distressing’ eviction.
The homeowner was evicted by high court bailiffs working for the National Eviction Team after insolvency practitioners, Richard Long & Co, was appointed receiver of her assets over a debt that she owed to Bristol City Council. She says that the debt had been sold on to the insolvency practitioners following a confiscation order, relating to a court order in 2012.

Oxford County Court heard that the parcel of land north east of Roman Road had ‘potentially’ been occupied since at least May 2020. Satellite images from this year show at least one caravan and two cars by a dirt track on the greenfield site.
An agent for landowners Watali UK Limited, John Ingram, visited the land on October 5 to serve a notice of claimed possession.

The building has been vacant since it closed in 2020
Plans have been unveiled to build 14 flats above a closed down sports bar “occupied by squatters” in Northampton town centre.
Proposals have been submitted to West Northamptonshire Council to build flats above the former Northampton Sports Bar in Gold Street, previously known as Rileys.
If approved, the ground floor and basement would be retained as a commercial use area, the first floor would be converted into flats, and another two storeys would be built to house more apartments.

Dozens of officers in several police vehicles arrived at the site outside Mendip House at around 3.30pm following reports of anti social behaviour and drug taking in the premises.
Police negotiated with one man inside the building, allowing him and a companion to collect their personal items before leaving an hours later.

A number of squatters have been evicted from a row of derelict homes near Peterborough city centre this morning.
A ‘multi-agency’ operation – involving officers from Peterborough City Council and Cambridgeshire – took place at the council owned homes in Cromwell Road earlier today.
The Peterborough Telegraph reported earlier this year how the homes have become a magnet for anti social and criminal behaviour, including graffiti, noise and drug abuse since they were boarded up.

NOT what the squatters expected – a team of special forces veterans abseiling down a posh London home to help evict them.
The masked black-clad squad swooped from the roof of Bloomsbury House to block the windows and prevent occupiers reaching the roof balconies as bailiffs entered through the front door.

Peterborough City Council and Cambridgeshire Police will work together to tackle drug misuse and other issues in a row of boarded up houses in Peterborough city centre.
The homes, in Cromwell Road just yards from the Queensgate bus station have been a magnet for anti-social issues since being boarded up – with drug issues being a major problem in the area.
Graffiti has been sprayed on many of the homes, and there are also signs of fire damage at some of the properties.

A landmark hotel and former squat has been bought by its third set of owners in three years. They hope to have more luck converting it.
The Grade II listed Trafford Park Hotel on Third Avenue, Trafford Park, had previously fallen into disrepair over many years, sat empty for a decade and become a drug den and home to squatters. Now, new owners Food and Tipple Ltd. want to turn the site into 15 apartments and build another block of 20 apartments on the site, right next to the former hotel.
In June 2020, the listed hotel was placed on the market for a cool £750,000 by then owners Ashley Hotels group. The London-based company had only purchased the site itself a year earlier for a massive £900,000.

Around 30 people have been evicted from an autonomously organised shelter in North London. At 9am on Thursday 7th April agents of the National Eviction Team and notorious eviction magnate Andrew Marsh, smashed their way through barricades to enforce a High Court writ despite repeated attempts by the occupiers to enter into dialogue with the property’s owners, OneHousing, to negotiate a peaceful and orderly handover.

Squatters in a disused pub had been living with a body in a freezer for months before it was found, The Independent can reveal.
The body of Roy Bigg, who went missing in February 2012, was found “wrapped in cling film” in the basement of the derelict Simpson’s wine bar in Newham, London.
Bailiffs were clearing out the building when they made the discovery on 15 October last year. As many as 20 squatters were estimated to have been living in the disused building before they were evicted by enforcement officers at the instruction of the owners in late September.

Activists occupied a London mansion linked to Oleg Deripaska to protest the Ukraine invasion.
A spokeswoman for Deripaska criticized the police and said the mansion was owned by his family.
She accused the UK of “colluding” with the protesters, who were arrested after nearly 20 hours.
A Russian oligarch said he was “appalled at the negligence of Britain’s justice system” after a group of activists broke into a London mansion that he said belongs to his family.

The boss of a waste disposal firm has given a glimpse into the “worst” house clearance he’s ever undertaken.
Shaun Dingle, who runs Dingle’s Waste Disposal, has been contracted to clear the two-bedroom terraced house in Blackburn, which was previously occupied by a group of squatters.

An association representing 650 local residents have declared their support for the Grey’s Inn Road occupation of a former St. Mungo’s hostel as an autonomously organised winter shelter.
After the Camden New Journal reported on the occupation on their frontpage last Thursday the organisers have received the following message of support:
“Hi, I am the co-chair of Hillview Residents’ Association, which represents 650 One Housing Group tenants off Cromer Street, Kings Cross. We are now tenants, but many of us started out as squatters. We heard about the Autonomous Winter Shelter in Gray’s Inn Road from this week’s Camden New Journal, and the threat of eviction by the owner of the building, One Housing. We would like to offer our support to the occupiers of the building, at least by helping to publicise their situation and getting people along to oppose the eviction. We have been in conflict with One Housing since they took over our blocks in the early 90s and understand how anti-democratic, money grubbing and ruthless they are. All the best.”

The families worst affected by Storm Arwen have been promised the chance to grill utilities bosses over their dismal response to the crisis.
The bout of severe weather late last year saw about 100,000 homes across the UK left without power, with thousands of homes in the North East left without power for more than a week.
And with bosses in Northumberland gearing up to hold their own inquiry into the event, households in the county have been told they will have the chance to put questions to key decision makers.

A couple are hoping planners will allow them to carry on using a vacant patch of land as their own after they fenced it off more than three years ago.
Donna and Kent Barron were “gobsmacked” to receive a letter from borough council enforcement officers in August asking them to apply for planning permission for a change of use, or take the fence down.

A Bradwell couple have sealed the deal on a parcel of land ahead of a crucial planning meeting to decide if they can use it as their private garden.

Members of an organised crime gang have been convicted of trying to smuggle 69 Albanians into Great Yarmouth in a fishing trawler.

A Bristol student is “disappointed and shocked” that police do not know which officers illegally raided his city centre home.
More than 100 riot police enforced a closure order on three squats in High Street, early on the morning of June 4, after Avon and Somerset Police reported “escalating criminality and antisocial behaviour” from squatters.

Hospital Close in Evington was once a small but busy pocket of the city that played home to NHS workers and their families.
But all that changed in 2019 when University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust decided it could not afford to upgrade the homes to modern standards and moved people out.
Since then, it has fallen into rack and ruin, left with boarded up homes and streets strewn with rubbish.

Around 50 caravans turned up on the field at Angram Bank in High Green, where the occupants remained for five days before leaving on Friday, August 6 after being threatened with court action.
Ecclesfield parish councillor David Ogle said it was the fifth time in recent years that vehicles had descended on the site and local residents had complained about being unable to use the park while they were there.

A dozen supporters gathered outside the former music venue in Toft Green, but with no sign of bailiffs or police at the scene by 10.15am.
Patrick Thelwell and other squatters were served with papers yesterday, stating that an interim possession order had been granted by a judge at York County Court on Tuesday.
It said the order had been granted on the grounds that they were occupying the building without the owners’ permission and had no right to occupy the premises.

They have moved into the building in Toft Green which operated as Fibbers until it shut its doors in January last year.
The Press had reported in 2019 that the future of the venue was in doubt after the club revealed its premises had been sold to a new developer.
But, following an agreement between the developers North Star and Fibbers, the night club was allowed to stay at the site for another six months.

A paper with the header “legal warning” has been attached to the building and reads: “Take notice that we occupy this property and at all times there is at least one person in occupation.
“That any entry or attempt to enter into these premises without our permission is therefore a criminal offence as any one of us who is in physical possession is opposed to such entry without without our permission.
“That if you attempt to enter by violence or by threatening violence we will prosecute you. You may receive a sentence of up to six months’ imprisonment and/or a fine of up to £5,000.

A Holocaust survivor who returned to the Hamptons from Israel to find her tenant refusing to leave her home has claimed the renter ‘totally destroyed’ her furniture and left piles of trash to rot outside.
Genya Markon, 78, spends the winters in Israel and the summers at her $675,000 home in Hampton Bays – which has been in her family since it was purchased by her parents in 1967.
But Markon said she flew home to the Hamptons only to find her tenant, Julie Rinke, still there and the place covered in trash, as seen in photos provided to DailyMail.com.
She has since filed a lawsuit seeking to force Rinke out of the home and accusing her of falsely claiming to be protected under New York’s coronavirus-related ban on evictions.

Police are evicting squatters from three properties in Bristol this morning.
Officers arrived on High Street at around 6am after Avon and Somerset Police secured a closure order on the occupied properties yesterday (June 2).
The force says there has been “escalating criminality and antisocial behaviour (ASB)” at 39-40, 45 and 46 High Street — addresses which squatters have occupied over recent weeks.
Number 39 was the first building taken over, in March 2021. Since then “internal boundaries have been breached”, say police, and numbers 45 and 46 have also been occupied.

Police are evicting squatters from three properties in Bristol this morning.
Officers arrived on High Street at around 6am after Avon and Somerset Police secured a closure order on the occupied properties yesterday (June 2).
The force says there has been “escalating criminality and antisocial behaviour (ASB)” at 39-40, 45 and 46 High Street — addresses which squatters have occupied over recent weeks.
Number 39 was the first building taken over, in March 2021. Since then “internal boundaries have been breached”, say police, and numbers 45 and 46 have also been occupied.

Squatters say they have turned a former salon site into a free book shop and “space of radical learning” in Bristol city centre.
A group of people appeared to move their possessions on May 15 from a squat at 40A High Street into the former I Candy salon property at 45 High Street.
Worrall Road Estates, which owns 45 High Street, secured a possession order for the building at Bristol County Court on May 21 – but enforcement action cannot be taken until June 4.
And the occupiers were on Wednesday afternoon (May 26) using the Grade II-listed site as a free shop. A banner across the frontage read: “Wonky Arrow Books”.
A sign at the side showed the words “free shop, donations welcome”, alongside a picture of a bird and love hearts.
On a wooden board outside was the message: “This is a squatted building. We have turned this empty building into a space of radical learning.”

A group of squatters has taken over another city centre property – four doors away from another occupied property.
Last week, squatters at 40 High Street, next to the entrance to St Nicholas Market, were told by the courts to vacate the council-owned property by the end of the month.
And now huge pro-Palestine banners have been unfurled at 45 High Street, but it is not clear at this stage whether the property has been taken over by the same group of people or not.
However, a video being shared on social media appears to show the occupiers of 40 High Street moving their belongings to the second property.

Activists chose Redhill railway sidings because it contains a beautiful rewilded woodland area loved by local people for nearly 90 years, abundant in wildlife, now fenced off and under threat of development.
During the protest the activists collected litter, carried out a bird species survey and stopped at points to read poetry.
The action was organised in support of the Right to Roam campaign to push for the open spaces of England and Wales to be opened up for public access.

Margaret Greenwood raised her concerns during a parliamentary debate on a popular petition which urged the Government not to criminalise trespass.
Last year, a petition was set-up on the Parliament website in response to a pledge in the Conservative’s 2019 manifesto to ‘make intentional trespass a criminal offence’.
The petition voiced concerns that changing trespass, which has traditionally been a civil offence, to a criminal offence, could ‘criminalise ramblers who stray even slightly from the path’ and ‘criminalise wild camping, denying hikers a night under the stars’.

A group of campaigners have trespassed on land owned by an MP to “start a conversation” about public access.
About 40 people, including some from environmental activists Extinction Rebellion, walked on to Richard Drax’s Charborough Estate on Saturday.
The protest was held to coincide with the anniversary of the Kinder Scout trespass, which saw ramblers claim a “right to roam” on private land.
Mr Drax, the MP for South Dorset, declined to comment on the protest.

The protest is organised by climate group Extinction Rebellion York, but not limited to its members. It will take place on private land in the York area this Saturday (24 April).
Organisers say they “have no intention of disrupting the livelihoods or daily activities of landowners. We trespass not in order to harm landowners – as the law defines it – but to start a conversation about our natural right to land.”
Calling themselves The Land We Share, the group said that they will “follow the rule of six and maintain 1 metre social distancing at all times, and risk will be low in any case as we will be outside and in fresh air”.

A man has been charged with trespassing at Buckingham Palace with a knife.
At shortly after 11.30am on Thursday, police arrested a 46-year-old man who was attempting to enter through a gate into a service yard at the rear of the royal residence in London.
Chorrie Thompson, 46, of Ashcombe Park, Neasden, north west London, was charged on Friday with trespass on a protected site and possession of a blade or sharp pointed article in a public place.

A Southern California couple who closed on a $560,000 dream home weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic finally took control of the house after the former owner used a ban on evictions to squat inside the home for 15 months.
Cell phone video from last fall shows the moment Tracie Albert and her friends confronted the squatter who refused to leave the Riverside, California home that he had sold to her and her husband.
Tracie and Myles Albert used up all of their life savings to pay for the four-bedroom house back in January of last year, CBS Los Angeles reported.
The couple closed on a contract with the seller on January 31, 2020 and were supposed to move in that day.

They say their decision to vacate it followed talks with the organisations currently running the site.
In a statement, the group said: “We’d hoped to highlight and draw a bit of awareness to the Kings Head’s heritage.
“We are glad to report that the situation has progressed rapidly.”
They moved into the former Ocean Hotel site, which adjoins the Kings Head, earlier this week, issuing a ‘no entry’ warning and claiming a legal right to live there.

As part of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021, the Home Office proposes to create a new offence for England and Wales, to combat what the authorities call ‘unauthorised encampments’.
An accompanying power will allow the police to seize property (including vehicles) where individuals reside or intend to reside on land with a vehicle. More details on the Home Office website.
West Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) John Campion welcomed the proposal to give more power to the police to remove intentional trespassers, as an amendment to the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.

Officers carried out patrols on Friday March 5 following complaints from members of the public.
One of the premises visited was Pine Court in Gervis Road.
A spokesman for Bournemouth Police said: “Bournemouth South Neighbourhood Policing Team have been out visiting various premises due to reports of drug dealing and squatting.

The government will strengthen police powers and create a new criminal offence to tackle unauthorised encampments, Home Secretary Priti Patel will announce today.
The new offence will target trespassers who intend to reside on any private or public land in vehicles without permission, and where they are causing significant disruption, distress or harm to local communities.
Police will be given powers to seize vehicles and arrest offenders. The measures will target harmful encampments which reflect badly on the wider nomadic community as a whole, the majority of whom are law-abiding.

Squatters have moved into a prominent building in Bristol and unfurled a giant banner protesting a lack of affordable housing.
The group has taken up residence at the former Randstad office on the junction of Longmead Avenue with Gloucester Road, opposite the Sainsbury’s./p>

An 81-year-old veteran was forced to spend £15,000 evicting a group of squatters from the plot of land he bought as a nest egg for his retirement.
Ex-army officer Jonathan Price, from Stokes Cross in Bristol, called in eviction lawyer Chris Sharpe to help him remove a group of people living on his property in caravans on Channel 5’s Evicted! Nightmare Tenants.
The pair were met with a hostile response from the squatters, who claimed the plot didn’t belong to Jonathan – with one shouting he wanted to start a ‘class war’ and that ‘landlords should be quaking in fear’.

A Grand Designs episode set in Medway, Kent, is a contender for the show’s least successful ever.
Chris and Sze wanted more freedom than their east London flat was granting them and their kids, so decided to make the move to houseboat – converting an old barge for a life on the river.

The Home Office has announced the government will pass a new law to criminalise intentional trespassing on private land.
The ban on trespassing, currently only a civil offence, will see higher fines of up to £2500 being given to offenders and a potential for up to three months of prison time./p>

EXCLUSIVE: Interior designer, 46, says she could lose her £800,000 family home due to nightmare guest who moved in for a two-week holiday but is refusing to leave THREE MONTHS later ‘as he tries to exploit Covid eviction rules’

A MAN with serious health problems says his home has turned into a ‘living nightmare’ thanks to squatters, fire-starters, repeated break-ins and poor living conditions.
David Morrison, 45, says only three flats are occupied in the block he stays in on Robert Street, in the Clune Park area, and that it has become a magnet for trouble.
People have been squatting in empty flats within the building and repeatedly setting fires.

A family yesterday accused a neighbouring landowner of taking a slice of their property – now owned by the Spanish Point Boat Club – at the Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses.
Brittany Robinson said her great-grandfather, Heman Smith, bought a piece of waterfront property with a small beach on Place’s Point Road, Pembroke, from his aunt in 1946.
But he lost the waterfront portion of the land in a Supreme Court legal battle against his neighbour Amelia Chiappa less than two years later.
Ms Robinson alleged that “misleading” documents and potential judicial bias tainted the case, and asked for the land to be returned to her family

It is, in many respects, like a thousand other student halls of residence: leftover food litters the kitchen, discarded mugs on the surfaces and a guitar in the corner of the room.
But this building, Manchester University’s landmark Owens Park Tower, has this week become the front line of an increasingly bitter battle between students across the UK and the very institutions they attend.
Nine teenagers have made headlines by occupying the 19-storey campus block — a long-disused residential complex — in protest at the way (they say) universities have mistreated and misled youngsters throughout the coronavirus pandemic

In a letter to the High Court Enforcement Officers Association, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland has confirmed that during the lockdown there will be no enforcement of Possession Orders except for the most serious cases.
These will include those related to illegal trespassing and squatting and tenants engaged in anti-social behaviour, fraud or deception. The Government has also confirmed that it will bring forward an exemption from the enforcement ban for cases related to extreme pre-Covid rent arrears.

Islington Council only sealed the £14.7m deal to build flats on top of the trees at Highbury Corner three weeks after protesters claimed squatters’ rights to them – meaning the decision could have been called in for review that whole time to see if they could have been saved.
According Cllr Caroline Russell of the Green Party, council representatives told protesters from the non-violent direct action group Extinction Rebellion that thousands of pounds would be lost through penalty clauses if the development to build a six-storey block of 14 private flats at Dixon Clark Court did not go ahead.

A new Black Lives Matter themed art mural has been unveiled in North Kensington as part of Kensington and Chelsea Art Week.
The piece, showcased on Freston Road, takes inspiration from the Republic of Frestonia, the state created in 1977 by a group of squatters who took an unorthodox route whilst on the brink of extinction.

One of the biggest property tycoons in London is the president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The Guardian revealed last week that he owned around £5.5bn of real estate in the city. This covers streets and buildings in Mayfair, Knightsbridge and Kensington, and may be more valuable even than the London holdings of the Grosvenor Estate, surpassed only by the Crown.
For a foreign head of state to secretly possess so much property in any capital is bizarre and presumably of security concern. When his regime is dictatorial and believes in the use of torture, enforced disappearance and imprisoning government critics, it should be triply unwelcome. Imagine the outcry if the owner was revealed as Vladimir Putin or Kim Jong-un.

North-east property developer, StripeHomes, has revealed that there is currently an estimated £1.744bn worth of unclaimed property lying vacant across England and Wales, with London and the South East ranking as the top hotspots for unclaimed estates.
The latest figures show that there are some 7,991 estates currently left unclaimed in England and Wales and with an estimated value of £218,300 per an estate, that’s £1.744bn worth of property lying vacant.
The majority of these estates have been left by bachelors, spinsters and widows who have failed to pass them on via a will.

As landlords and tenants are well aware the Coronavirus Act 2020 and changes to the court rules have given tenants some security during the current pandemic, namely that they will not be evicted from their property. Originally this was to be until June, then (for residential tenants) August then September and at the date of writing this article, is now December 2020 (for commercial tenants).
Initially there was a total prohibition on progressing all possession claims, but this was subsequently modified and the following exceptions to the stay were allowed:
a claim against trespassers to which rule 55.6 applies (Rule 55.6 under the Civil Procedure Rules applies to ‘persons unknown’ claims);Interim Possession Orders;Claims for injunctive relief; and
Applications for agreed directions.

A crooked copper who used her position to steal steal six vacant homes by claiming squatters’ rights has been jailed for more than four years.
Disgraced ex-sergeant Rosa Rossi built her £1.5m illegal portfolio by convincing tradesmen to change locks on the properties.

It is now an established truism of Britain’s spring and summer of lockdown that it emphasised, like almost nothing in our recent history, the importance of countryside and nature to the nation’s well-being. In the media and on every kind of social platform, the part played by the living world in providing spiritual and physical release from the strains of coronavirus has been relentlessly repeated.
Ironically, perhaps, the defining images of that interrelationship between people and place are the photographs of Bournemouth in late June, with its enormous beach crowds. On the one hand, the half a million visitors were condemned for their inexcusable littering and thoughtlessness. On the other hand, the scenes symbolised precisely how little space and how few rights to our landscape British citizens enjoy.

Squatters appear to have taken over a once beloved Cambridge pub and have issued a “warning” to anyone who might try to remove them from the premises.
It is understood that about 12 people have been living in the vacant property that once housed The Hopbine pub in Fair Street near The Grafton centre. Lights have been spotted at the former pub in the evenings.

Rouse Homes wants to build a new housing estate on land south of Soureby Cross Way which is allocated for housing in the local plan.
But the access was originally going to be via track off Hunsworth Lane, which also leads to sports facilities run by East Bierley Community Sports Association.
Members of Kirklees Council’s strategic planning committee narrowly lost a vote to approve the scheme, as half of the committee argued that the developer had done all it could to trace the owner of a piece of unregistered land.

Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has won a High Court battle with the Wynnstay Estate over land the estate owned but which NRW had the freehold to and managed.
It was argued that Natural Resources Wales had been trespassing on the land, by digging below a thin layer of soil in order to carry out its work.
The case centred on large areas of land in Powys, which is used and managed by Natural Resources Wales for forestry purposes, on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales – which owns the freehold titles. Over the years, mudstone quarried from the land has been used to create roads and tracks, as part of the forestry infrastructure work.

Grove Parish Council revealed it has applied for ‘adverse possession’ on the piece of land next to Edington Place after concerned residents raised alarms over the potential sale of the site, which is home to a bench commemorating Grove mum Dominique Hill, who died in December 2018.
Until last month parishioners had thought the council owned the land, however, records proved the land is owned by Davis Estates Southern, who built the whole side of Grove.

A site plagued by squatters will be turned into a café this summer despite the coronavirus pandemic and residents’ objections over noise.
Councillors granted a three-month premises licence for Picton Street Summer Garden even though one neighbour said he was so fed up with street drinkers urinating in his garden that he was building a drawbridge to stop them getting past his gate.

An estimated 20,000 renters are being evicted, leaving them to try and find safe accomodation in the midst of the pandemic, according to the housing charity Shelter.
This falls short of the government’s promise to protect renters from eviction, with Labour shadow housing minister John Healey saying the proposed changes merely extend the notice period for private renters by a month, and do nothing to address the arrears they will likely build up.

Squatters have taken over a disused nursery by Rotherhithe Primary School, sparking a legal battle by the school and council to have them removed.
As the News went to press, senior staff at the school were meeting with parents about an estimated five people who claimed squatters’ rights over the kids day care centre on Monday night.
The building looks onto the primary school playground, separated by a fence, with a Year Three classroom reportedly among those closest to the area squatters are residing.

THE owner of a patch of land next to Hampstead Heath, which for many years was lived on by Harry “the Hermit” Hallowes, says he has no plans over what to do with it.
Kashir Yousaf has previously been urged by the City of London and the Heath and Hampstead Society to transfer the land back to the Heath.
But he told the New Journal this week: “We last spoke about a year ago, but we have no assessment of its value. If someone came forward with a proposal we would look at it. I know how sensitive the site is and we would only proceed with a plan after taking advice from the local authority.”

Charity workers supporting the homeless were faced with an awkward situation when three people walked into their former shop claiming squatters’ rights.
Volunteers from ShareShop were in and out of their old premises opposite Storyhouse when the trio walked in off the street.
The two men and one woman had apparently being living in the squat at the vacant Welsh Baptist Chapel opposite Chester Bus Interchange but were evicted on Monday morning (January 27).

My house and farm, which I inherited, includes two plots of bog consisting of about seven acres. However, these plots, while in the same townland, are not included in my original Land Registry folio. I have no deeds or documentation to prove my ownership. I understand that the plots originated as turbary rights granted to my great-grandfather in the 1800s. He was a tenant farmer on the farm, which has been in my family since. My neighbours have similar plots of bog.

Workers at an industrial estate in Bristol have complained of squatters taking over a disused unit in the wake of an ‘illegal rave’ on New Year’s Day – which police attracted several hundred people.
Around 10 people remain in the disused warehouse on Chapel Street in St Philips Marsh and are refusing to leave, according to an employee at a nearby business.

solicitor who attached the wrong map to a Land Registry application has been fined by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.
Lesley Charne Seifert, admitted more than 40 years ago, admitted to attaching the incorrect map to a HM Land Registry application for the adverse possession of a strip of land. However, she denied acting dishonestly and without integrity, as alleged by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

quatters who took over a Reading pub can remain for the time being – after the prosecution team in their court hearing breached legal rules.
Last month the old Red Lion pub on Southampton Street was transformed into Kobani House – a political space in solidarity with the people and revolutions of Kurdistan.

The infamous Chester squatters are now a two-home family after occupying a second property in the city centre.
Thinking they were about to be evicted from their current Nicholas Street squat an advanced party located an alternative within the former Northgate Arms pub off Delamere Street.

Squatters are continuing to give Chester landlords sleepless nights after moving into their fourth empty premises in five weeks.
Police were called to Knights Court in Weaver Street about 10am on Wednesday (November 6) after a passerby reported what appeared to be a break-in.
About five people are said to be inside so far with more likely to follow. Legal notices claiming squatters’ right have been posted in the windows.

A squatter who moved into a large home when the owner died is attempting to sell it for more than £1m.
Property developer Bill Gertos was visiting a client in a suburb of Sydney, Australia when he came across an empty house back in 1998.

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A solicitor who engaged in four-year row over a wheelie bin row has been cleared of harassing his doctor neighbour after a judge ruled he was entitled to protect his property.
Hugh Clement Sorrell, 76, was arrested and prosecuted after repeated quarrels with Dr. Jayshree Pillaye, 72, over the land outside apartments in Pinner, north west London.

A cancer-stricken pensioner has finally been able to regain access to her home, more than two years after a squatter moved into the property and refused to leave.
Julie Pearn revealed her home in Deniliquin, in the New South Wales Riverina, has been left in a “disgusting” state by the woman, named by Channel Nine as Theresa Smith, who had been living there with her children without the homeowner’s permission since November 2016.

Bristol City Council says it has “secured” the city’s notorious Bearpit roundabout following weeks of occupation by squatters.
Police cordoned off the space, which is officially called St James Barton roundabout, yesterday afternoon (June 18).
According to Mayor Marvin Rees, the intervention was in response to squatters who had created “a toxic and dangerous environment”.

The group have been living in the vacant NatWest branch in Poole Road since last week, and have been disturbing residents in the flats above with loud music in the middle of the night.
Madonna Viviani, who has lived in the building for 10 years, said she was woken up at 2am on Thursday with her “floor shaking”.
BCP Council served the squatters with a noise abatement notice later that day, which threatens them with a fine if they continue to make a noise.

Squatters have been evicted from the Civic Centre as plans officially go in for the building’s revamp.In February it was reported squatters were refusing to leave the multi-storey tower block in the city centre – once the council’s headquaters.
The BBC reported how the 15-storey block, which is being transformed into a mix of flats, restaurants, bars and shops, had been occupied by seven squatters for four weeks.

Alone, homeless , and with nowhere left to turn to for help – Luke decided to end his life aged just 17.
Despite begging for somewhere safe to sleep, Luke says he was turned away from a shelter because it was after 3pm.
Facing a night sleeping rough, the terrified teenager decided to take his own life ./p>

Squatters living at an NHS building in Salford have been given the chance to appeal an eviction notice.
The rough sleepers currently living in the former GP surgery on Church Street, in Eccles, are fighting to be allowed to stay in the building they now call home.
A judge has granted permission for an appeal and made directions for the case to be heard after March 28.

Mum-of-five Katie Bentley was described as a “nightmare” by neighbours she terrorised and left the home in Hull full of overflowing bins and festering piles of rubbish.
Landlord Phil Withnall has now accused her of causing £20,000 worth of damage to the property, not paying rent for three months and allowing the house to be infiltrated by squatters.

Campaigners trying to stop the eviction of eco-squatters protesting against Heathrow’s third runway are hiding in a pitch black tunnel.
A group of at least three activists managed to crawl into the tunnel sealed by a trapdoor after they spotted police and a specialist eviction team drafted in to remove the small community of 20-30 squatters.

Squatters have taken over Exeter’s old bus station cafe.
Coaches made a shock closure shortly before Christmas and has not reopened since.
And an unknown number of squatters have taken advantage of the deserted Paris Street building by moving in.

DEVELOPERS have hit back over claims squatters have moved into a new estate stalled because of a bitter access row.
People already living on the Yew Tree Hill estate, Droitwich, claimed last week the delay has allowed squatters to break into properties, which are priced from £200,000 to more than £300,000.

A RESIDENT on a new Droitwich estate claims rough sleepers and thieves are breaking into unoccupied homes.
The Yew Tree Hill estate in Droitwich, shared between developers Redrow and Persimmon, will include up to 500 homes, but currently has numerous completed but empty properties, due to a court order which says the developer must make alterations to an access road before allowing any more homes to be occupied.
The developers entered into a formal agreement with Wychavon District Council last February, agreeing 90 properties could be occupied – then upped to 188 – before improvement works are completed on an access road.

A social home built by the council has been taken over by squatters and “left to rot”.
The house at 1b Alders Avenue in Woodford Green sits within Waltham Forest’s borough boundaries and was originally built on council land to be sold for shared ownership.
Despite being ready in October 2015, the property has been empty since.

Squatters who have transformed a derelict building into a makeshift homeless shelter look set to be kicked out by the NHS.
Around 15 rough sleepers are currently bedding down in the former doctor’s surgery on Church Street, in Eccles, Salford.
Campaigners say they have taken over the building because there is a ‘huge’ homelessness problem in Salford and rough sleepers can’t always stay at official shelters.

An abandoned block of flats in Withernsea that have become “a scene for crime and disorder” and caused misery to local residents are set to be demolished.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has issued statutory notices on flats in Cherry Tree Avenue, along with the former Whitethorne Avenue Community Centre.

A Government agency that owns empty land across Bristol have admitted they are evicting a group of people living in caravans from one site – even though there are no plans to develop it for at least another year.
Homes England, the Government quango that takes over state-owned land and develops it, has taken legal action against a group of around 15 people living in caravans and motorhomes on the site of a former stone yard in Bower Ashton, on the edge of Bristol.

Single people in need of a home are the least likely to be prioritised by local authorities. But could one-person micro-homes be an answer – or is expecting people to live in a box, and be grateful about it, a step too far?
Nearly a quarter of a million single people have experienced homelessness in the past 12 months.

Walsall planning chiefs threw out a plan to demolish a derelict bungalow and replace it with a small care home – despite officers recommending approval.
Midway Care Group had wanted to tear down 161 Aston Road in Willenhall – which is reportedly being used by squatters – and build a two-storey home in its place to accommodate four adults with physical and learning difficulties.

A former pub in Tunbridge Wells town centre has been taken over by squatters with people living nearby reporting seeing a tent and drug-taking in the garden.
Shopkeepers and neighbours have seen people crawling in and out first floor windows of the tatty Crystal Palace in Camden Road and shimmying down the traffic lights, with the latest sightings on Saturday and Sunday. (November 24 and 25)

Squatters have been evicted from a vacant shop in Bath city centre which used to be the home of a national shoe retailer.
Dune London, in Union Street, closed its doors to the public in early October, with two signs simply stating ‘WE’RE CLOSED’./p>

Squatters may have moved into the Nestlé Tower, the Croydon landmark building in the town centre undergoing a £500million redevelopment.The office building, formally titled St George’s House, has been empty since September 2012 when the Swiss multi-national food and consumer goods company left Croydon, which had been their British operations base for nearly 50 years.

Police were called to assist High Court enforcement officers carrying out a High Court Writ to vacate the empty Frankie and Benny’s restaurant in Southchurch Road at around 6.10pm on Thursday, November 15.
Paul Bellerson, 46, Jimi O’Donnell, 34, Michael O’Brien, 51 – all of no fixed address – and Leroy Bramble, 55, of York Road, Southend, were arrested and later charged with intentionally obstructing a person lawfully acting an as enforcement agent.

With the festive period drawing closer and people thinking about what to buy their loved ones, there is one gift that will be unwelcome, namely squatters.Over the holidays every year we see a significant rise in squatters taking over empty buildings such as pubs and restaurants. These types of buildings can be particularly attractive to squatters as they come with their own supply of festive spirits!

Julian King, a 44-year-old Croydon filmmaker, began occupying Ambassador House, a nine-floor office block, in July this year along with four other former Croydon College art students.
The building had been empty since 2012, when it was bought by Red Wing Property Holdings Ltd.

A neighbor found the three-year-old boy wandering in the streets Thursday morning, prompting police in western Pennsylvania to investigate. What they found in the boy’s home was even worse, as police say his parents were “squatters.”
As KDKA-TV and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report, the boy’s parents — 39-year-old Athena Coffey and 39-year-old Joel Coffey of North Braddock, Pa., were both taken into custody during the police investigation.

Squatters are being evicted from Exeter’s derelict King Billy pub – next door to posh department store John Lewis.
The events are unfolding at the recently closed boozer on New North Road, near the High Street.
The mother of one of the squatters, who herself busks in the city centre, has spoke of her upset over the situation.
She claims the squatters have been offered money to leave, but wants them to be homed instead.

A woman dubbed ‘the serial squatter’ has been sentenced to six years in prison for crimes related to a lengthy scam against a string of landlords.
Heather Ann Schwab, 43, pleaded guilty to felony identity theft last month and was sentenced on Monday by a judge in Brighton, Colorado, on the northeast outskirts of Denver.

A community farm in Laverstock has secured the acquistion of over 50 acres of water meadows, thanks to a local donor.
Formerly owned by local landowner Peter Bialek and leased to the River Bourne Community Farm, the land at Cow Lane in Laverstock was purchased for the newly formed Devenish Bradshaw Charitable Trust by Mr Peter Bradshaw, whose gesture prevents any future adverse development of the land and secures it as an important green belt area between the parishes of Laverstock and Salisbury.

Squatters living inside a closed East End pub held raunchy sex parties inside the derelict building before trying to sell off its furniture.
Local residents were fuming when a group of 12 illegal tenants invaded the Grade II listed building in Manor Park, Newham.
They accused the group of trashing the former Earl of Essex boozer and putting graffiti on its walls.

Boris Johnson has been accused of “taxpayer-funded squatting” after it emerged he is still living in the grace and favour home for Foreign Secretaries more than a week after he quit the Cabinet.
The Tory heavyweight resigned from the Government earlier this month in protest at Theresa May’s Brexit plan but has been unable to move out of the £20m official residence in Carlton Gardens where he lives rent-free.

A plot of land belonging to a hermit whose life inspired a Hollywood film has sold for £154,000 at auction.
Harry Hallowes was handed title deeds to the secluded woodland spot in Hampstead Heath in 2007 after developers threatened to evict him.
After his death in 2016 the land was bequeathed to homeless charities Shelter and Centrepoint – who put it up for auction with Savills.
Last year’s movie “Hampstead” was based on Mr Hallowes’ life story.

On the Sunday morning of September 21 1969, Chief Inspector Michael Rowling spoke to squatters guarding a vast mansion at the western end of Piccadilly and inhabited by hundreds of hippies. A doctor, he said, was needed inside to help a pregnant woman and after some persuading an improvised plywood drawbridge was slowly lowered. Rowling flung himself across the opening and a police sergeant blew his whistle. Suddenly dozens of policemen, seemingly from nowhere, charged over the bridge and straight into the property.

A housing trust threatened to take a 90-year-old woman with dementia to court over a dispute about ‘two-and-a-half feet’ of land – because a fence was moved more than 30 years ago.
Mary Thompson, who needs round-the-clock care, moved into her home in Wythenshawe, south Manchester, in 1961.
Her son Mark said the boundary in the back garden of the property was altered some time in the late 1980s or early 1990s, in an ‘gentleman’s deal’ with her then next-door neighbours.

Shocking photographs have revealed the horrendous damage and vandalism caused to a Hull city centre shop after it was invaded by squatters.A group of around 10 men and women took over the empty building in King Edward Street, Hull city centre, on Friday, April 6.The landlord of the building invited the Mail inside the shop, next to Dr Marten’s, after the squatters left to show the state of it now – and it does not look good.

A 74-year-old farmer has won a long-running dispute with the Church of England about the ownership of his land.
It has taken two years for Richard Tyacke, of Maxstoke, Warwickshire, to be granted ownership of 16 of his 120ha after discovering the Diocese of Birmingham had wrongly registered itself as the freeholder.

Late last year council planning officers rejected a bid to knock down the unlisted 1930s Art Moderne property at 2b Bradburne Road and neighbouring 2a and build a six-storey block of 16 flats.
A report justified this decision on the grounds that the loss of a “heritage asset”, impact on the Gardens and “excessive scale and plot coverage” of the proposed building were unacceptable.

Details of how police took “squatters’ rights” on the identities of dead children to infiltrate protest groups have emerged with full publication of sections of a Scotland Yard manual., external
The advice, from 1995, told undercover police wanting to use a dead child’s name to check the “respiratory status” of their relatives.

LONDON, March 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Outside a multi-million pound property in central London a small black sign reading “The homeless are revolting, join them” is the only indication this building is involved in a dispute over how the homeless are treated in the British capital.
When snow blasted London in early March, a group of about 160 homeless people moved into the disused 17.5 million pound ($24 million) eight-storey building in Great Portland Street, making it the biggest single shelter in the capital.

Activists who took over a building in central London to help house, feed and support homeless people have been told they must leave.
The four-storey building in Great Portland Street was taken over by the group and renamed the Sofia Solidarity Centre to use as a shelter./p>

A group of 26 squatters have been removed after forcing their way into a former Virgin Active Health Club.
Witnesses claimed the group were using the building’s spa facilities including the sauna, steam room and showers.
It is also alleged they held an all-night rave at the building in Wimbledon, south West London. /p>

Squatters that have overtaken a city centre building say they have made themselves “warm and comfy” away from the rain.
Activists For Love arrived at the building in Baker Street on Boxing Day, and had arrived in the city hoping to open a help centre for Hull’s homeless.

A row over ownership of a property in Chelmsford has been compared to the war between Queen Boudicca and the Romans in a colourful High Court ruling.
Local businessman, David Elvin, was handed the keys to number 9, Boudicca Mews by police in the wake of a cannabis raid in 2013.
However, Garry McClelland claimed squatter’s rights over the property, saying he had been in rent-free occupation without issue for more than 12 years./p>

A business couple are suing a pensioner who sold them a luxury seaside house over claims she let Japanese knotweed invade their garden from her land next door.Rosemary Line, 74, has been taken to court today by Adam and Eleanor Smith in a dispute over the invasive weed with each side blaming the other for spreading it.
The Smiths, both 43, bought their three-bedroom detached home in Maenporth, near Falmouth in Cornwall, from Mrs Line for £200,000 in 2002. /p>

A stretch of garden wall dividing two period Cotswold cottages became the focus of a bitter boundary dispute between next-door neighbours in Minchinhampton.
The case, which involved delving into 150 years of architectural history, set Peter and Wendy Berrell against their neighbour in Tetbury Street, Karen Champney.
The Berrells, who live at No. 6, claimed ownership of the entire wall, which is made of Cotswold stone on their side and of brick on Mrs Champney’s.

A derelict building which was once a famous venue graced by stars of the stage has been given a new lease of life after being abandoned for decades.
The iconic Manchester landmark the Hulme Hippodrome has stood empty for years, slowly falling into ruin.
In its heydey it played host to musical icons, bingo sessions and a self-proclaimed ‘miracle’ preacher.

A homeowner forced to give a tenant cheap rent for life due to a little-known law from 1925 says he is “nothing but a squatter living in my house”.
David Harding, 58, has hit out saying they have “nowhere to turn” after an attempt to turf out a tenant backfired because of 92-year-old laws.He says he is warning other people thinking of entering into a similar agreement, calling the situation “ludicrous”.

Where a Land Court judge determined that the plaintiff holds an easement by prescription over a narrow strip of land used for gardening within its walled-in patio area, but does not own the land, the judgment must be vacated because the plaintiff has prevailed on all elements of adverse possession, including exclusivity.Consequently, a revised judgment shall enter for the plaintiff on its claim for adverse possession.

THE owner of a Blackburn South fish and chippery and Whitehorse Council could be headed towards a stoush with the lot over a fenced-off laneway.Jim Vogiatzis, who runs Jim’s Fish and Chips at 136 Canterbury Rd, has leased the property from his family, who live in Greece, for about 33 years.
And the whole time, half of the laneway next to the store has been blocked off.
“It’s where I’ve always parked my car,” Mr Vogiatzis said.

This case raises the unusual question as to whether mooring a house-boat on a river can give rise to a claim to adverse possession of the riverbed underneath the boat.
The law on adverse possession is clear. It has two ingredients: factual possession (what the squatter did), and the intention to possess (what the squatter intended). Both these elements must have existed throughout the relevant limitation period i.e. 12 years if the land is unregistered but only 10 years in the case of registered land.

NAIROBI, July 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Samburu herders in Kenya are fighting for control of 17,000 acres of land that a former president sold to become a national park, in a case fraught with tensions over conservation and colonial dispossession.
The Samburu, a semi-nomadic people with the same language and culture as the Maasai, claim ownership of the disputed ranch in Kenya’s troubled Laikipia County, saying they squatted on it for 25 years before being evicted for wildlife conservation.

Last week one of Britain’s highest-profile and most politically significant squats was given its latest stay of execution. Residents at Grow Heathrow, a squat set up on derelict land in protest at plans for a third runway, were granted the right to appeal against a ruling by the royal courts of justice giving them 14 days to leave. The case has been rumbling on since the land was occupied in 2010; despite many eviction attempts, the squatters look set to fight another day.

A Co Dublin man has brought proceedings aimed at compelling his neighbour to take steps to prevent rock slides and boulders damaging his property.
Paul Lynam, of Weirview Gardens, Lucan has taken the High Court case against Thomas Kelly of Weirview Cottages, Lucan.
Mr Kelly owns a 36 square metre embankment of land located at the rear of Mr Lynam’s property, the court was told. The embankment is seven to eight metres high, vertical in places and made up of soil and rock.

It’s the feelgood film that promises to do for one of London’s best loved parklands what Richard Curtis’s romantic comedy did for Notting Hill.Hampstead, starring Diane Keaton and Brendan Gleeson, tells the tale of an American widow who falls for a hermit living on its famous heath. The film, which comes out on 23 June, is loosely based on the real-life story of the late Harry Hallowes, who lived in the ancient park for so many years that he was able to claim squatters’ rights to a tiny slice of it. But what will become of Hallowes’s patch of land – a stone’s throw from what promises to be one of Britain’s most expensive homes when it is completed – remains something of a mystery.

A FINSBURY nursery facing closure after an extraordinary land row with the Town Hall has been given a last-minute temporary reprieve.
Parents of toddlers who attend East West Community Nursery had been bracing themselves for the closure today (Friday) but earlier this week Islington Council wrote stating that it would not take place.

Squatters who have taken over a second building owned by Oxford University have been given until Sunday to leave.
The group of 25 squatters, called Osney Open House, took over part of Osney Power Station on 26 February.
Oxford County Court granted Said Business School an interim possession order on Wednesday.
The group previously claimed squatters rights in an unused car showroom owned by Wadham College./p>