That's so shit, typical council bollocks as well, I'd be going to war with the local government over that sort of thing and I wouldn't even care because it's one thing when they trespass with crappy security it's another when they do criminal damage on top of trespass just to get in.
The bit that got me was the council in question didn't even follow up about the theft of the bulldozer. That's how completely cowed they were by the squatters.
I have to wonder if it's not a deliberate scheme by the council to land grab, have squatters move in, fake ignorance until the land owner finally gives up and sells. Then they snap up the land at a cheap price as people decide it's worthless so they can build on it or some other bollocks. That's the sort of shady shit the UK government does all the time because these types of squatters have to come from somewhere and if they're in a group it makes it all the more suspicious to me.
What foreigners don't realise about the UK is they can pretty much seize your land even if you're the legal owner at any time, they just need the right justification for it and of course they're the ones who invent the rules for that.
That's so shit, typical council bollocks as well, I'd be going to war with the local government over that sort of thing and I wouldn't even care because it's one thing when they trespass with crappy security it's another when they do criminal damage on top of trespass just to get in.
The bit that got me was the council in question didn't even follow up about the theft of the bulldozer. That's how completely cowed they were by the squatters.
I have to wonder if it's not a deliberate scheme by the council to land grab, have squatters move in, fake ignorance until the land owner finally gives up and sells. Then they snap up the land at a cheap price as people decide it's worthless so they can build on it or some other bollocks. That's the sort of shady shit the UK government does all the time because these types of squatters have to come from somewhere and if they're in a group it makes it all the more suspicious to me.
What foreigners don't realise about the UK is they can pretty much seize your land even if you're the legal owner at any time, they just need the right justification for it and of course they're the ones who invent the rules for that.