The idea
Many citizens spend most of their working life paying their mortgage down and lots of HMG taxes only to find that very little protection exists whenever anybody decides to access your home, usually by breaking in and then making repairs then change the locks and then deny any forced entry, only to find that our 'so called police' stand well back and quote 'this is a civil issue' not a police matter. Squatters rights must be repealled forthwith to ensure a fair balance between working and blatant theft. The home owner has to stand by whilst their home is systematically destroyed whilst waiting months for a court order to evict squatters. Come on Britain! an Englishmans home is supposed to be his castle not a free for all.
Bigace49
Why is it important?
Squatters should have no rights whatsoever, many have deliberately dropped out of society and yet believe that they can simply have somebody elses roof over their heads. Many councils appear to like this situation because it removes all pressure upon them to re-house such people. Most councils sit back and pass the buck on to individual citizens who are grossly imposed upon for no other reason than it solves a problems for the council. All home owners should have an automatic right to evict squatters for illegal trespass, akin to a citizens arrest!
Bigace49
If that house was your home/castle .. why are you not living in it?
We now live in a society where there is a huge gap between the haves and have-nots.
Someone who earns £15000 will NEVER be able to own their own home and work their lives until they retire then die. And yet people on £40000.. own a home… buy a 2nd and 3rd house then rent it out…. meaning they can retire earlier and live longer.
If someone CHOOSES to leave an property empty then the council can and should step in and make it available.
But I do agree though that we should modify the squatting laws that the landlord should be able to come back and charge rent set at a fair level, set at maybe the Local Housing Allowance rate.
This would be fair on those people who cannot afford to buy or rent in the private sector and do not have the “points” needed for social rental. And for the landlord to receive fair compensation for that property.