Criminalise Squatting Petition: Signature List Feed http://gopetition.com/signatures/criminalise-squatting.html Online petition signatures en-us Thu, 9 Apr 2026 04:09 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Ms Alexandra Clark [Signature #1418] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13761702?utm_medium=rss No one wants squatters in their property, surely we are united on this. Squatters are house breakers who dont leave, they cause high levels of stress and often financial damage to their victims. A clear, strict law is needed.

]]> Sat, 15 Sep 2012 07:01:12 UTC 13761702 Mr stan finn [Signature #1417] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12110468?utm_medium=rss The home owner should have all the rights to protect and evict from there own property with any force required also with immediate effect, at the intruders expense and repayment within 14 days of any damage caused.

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:51:40 UTC 12110468 Mrs Karen Sutton [Signature #1416] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12104744?utm_medium=rss Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:14:43 UTC 12104744 MR JEFFREY WHYMARK [Signature #1415] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12067987?utm_medium=rss It is beyond belief that persons can enter into a home while the owners are away or indeed out shopping as in Barking and come back to find it occupied with out this being a criminal event. Then have to spend all their savings to get it back

]]> Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:45:56 UTC 12067987 Mr Steven Cousins [Signature #1414] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12037752?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:45:17 UTC 12037752 Anonymous [Signature #1413] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12037707?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:37:39 UTC 12037707 Mr Abraham Thomas [Signature #1412] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12037188?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:06:26 UTC 12037188 Ms Anonymous [Signature #1411] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12026907?utm_medium=rss Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:22:32 UTC 12026907 mr Anonymous [Signature #1410] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12025241?utm_medium=rss I agree with this petiton

]]> Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:23:13 UTC 12025241 Mrs Liela Ali [Signature #1409] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12025198?utm_medium=rss Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:16:40 UTC 12025198 Mr Mark Loach [Signature #1408] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12022080?utm_medium=rss Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:02:04 UTC 12022080 Mr Barrie Smith [Signature #1407] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12021536?utm_medium=rss Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:49:28 UTC 12021536 Ms Bianca Di Meglio [Signature #1406] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11987140?utm_medium=rss Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:56:10 UTC 11987140 Mr. David Clapp [Signature #1405] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11829144?utm_medium=rss Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:01:48 UTC 11829144 mr Anonymous [Signature #1404] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11743100?utm_medium=rss Sun, 27 Nov 2011 03:16:08 UTC 11743100 mrs Anonymous [Signature #1403] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11352848?utm_medium=rss As a landlord the present law gives all the rights to the tenants. Having done everything by law,when it comes to evict a problem tenant then the law is still on the tenants side. I have not had rent paid for 8 months and even to get the deposit back I have to go through the courts at my expense which is tollay unexpectable.

]]> Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:37:54 UTC 11352848 James Graham [Signature #1402] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11159514?utm_medium=rss Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:43:23 UTC 11159514 Mrs Elaine Tucker [Signature #1401] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11129914?utm_medium=rss Wed, 7 Sep 2011 10:15:04 UTC 11129914 Mr Anonymous [Signature #1400] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11128668?utm_medium=rss Wed, 7 Sep 2011 04:31:47 UTC 11128668 miss t lane [Signature #1399] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11121362?utm_medium=rss Mon, 5 Sep 2011 11:33:47 UTC 11121362 Mr Steve Gray [Signature #1398] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11026458?utm_medium=rss Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:30:18 UTC 11026458 Mr Burak Ozen [Signature #1397] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11012631?utm_medium=rss Tue, 16 Aug 2011 01:39:31 UTC 11012631 Mr Derek Farmer [Signature #1396] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11003659?utm_medium=rss Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:37:04 UTC 11003659 Mr Ben Dore [Signature #1395] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10989682?utm_medium=rss The ancient right of squatting has no place in a modern society.

]]> Sat, 13 Aug 2011 12:19:02 UTC 10989682 Mr Karim Kinch [Signature #1394] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10971211?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Aug 2011 06:14:40 UTC 10971211 mr Anonymous [Signature #1393] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10945377?utm_medium=rss Wed, 3 Aug 2011 05:14:06 UTC 10945377 Mr Richard Bowyer [Signature #1392] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10944969?utm_medium=rss Wed, 3 Aug 2011 03:39:50 UTC 10944969 miss rachel vigurs [Signature #1391] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10865569?utm_medium=rss Sun, 17 Jul 2011 08:26:25 UTC 10865569 mr antony parkin [Signature #1390] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10858877?utm_medium=rss Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:15:05 UTC 10858877 Mrs Camilla Payne de Cramilly [Signature #1389] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10852522?utm_medium=rss Sqatting needs to be properly criminalised and many other laws affacting landlords need urgent revision so that landlords will be encouraged to remain in this growing area of the market

]]> Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:36:42 UTC 10852522 Mr Dominic Payne de Cramilly [Signature #1388] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10852509?utm_medium=rss Squatting is one of the many areas where property owners and landlords require an urgent chnage in the law in order to protect their properties and to reflect the needs of the private renated sector in the 21st century

]]> Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:34:16 UTC 10852509 Miss Anonymous [Signature #1387] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10849731?utm_medium=rss Wed, 13 Jul 2011 02:22:47 UTC 10849731 Mr You're an idiot [Signature #1386] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10829568?utm_medium=rss You're still all idiots, no one should workout without a major exercise such as squats

]]> Sat, 9 Jul 2011 04:50:09 UTC 10829568 mr frank turner [Signature #1385] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10774575?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:13:14 UTC 10774575 Mr Anonymous [Signature #1384] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10770490?utm_medium=rss Squatting denies legitimate availability for genuine tenants and must be criminalised.

]]> Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:52:18 UTC 10770490 mr c bunting [Signature #1383] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10762049?utm_medium=rss Its an injustice change it! Make squatting illegal bring in harshier penalities.

]]> Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:42:16 UTC 10762049 Mr Alan Miles [Signature #1382] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10761725?utm_medium=rss Mon, 27 Jun 2011 02:16:34 UTC 10761725 Mr Justin Ward [Signature #1381] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10744883?utm_medium=rss Ban it !!!!

]]> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 03:28:48 UTC 10744883 Mrs Mich Hayter [Signature #1380] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10741226?utm_medium=rss Squatters are a blight on society and a curse to landlords and home owners, make squatting a criminal offense

]]> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:51:10 UTC 10741226 owen mills [Signature #1379] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10721555?utm_medium=rss Wed, 22 Jun 2011 03:48:13 UTC 10721555 Ms Heather Reilly [Signature #1378] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10718410?utm_medium=rss I have just received a £6,000 bill for the eventual eviction of squatters from my late uncle's house. They caused damage and removed/sold all his posessions. The police state it's not criminal. I I were to enter someone's property, dispose of their posessions and cause thousands of pounds of damage, I rckon, it's criminal!

]]> Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:19:39 UTC 10718410 Alison Persspm [Signature #1377] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10718324?utm_medium=rss Law needs to be changed.

]]> Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:58:28 UTC 10718324 Miss Nicola Pedlingham [Signature #1376] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10718209?utm_medium=rss Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:22:02 UTC 10718209 Mrs Melanie Osborne [Signature #1375] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10718175?utm_medium=rss Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:12:21 UTC 10718175 MR JEFF VINCENT [Signature #1374] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10661059?utm_medium=rss It's absolutely rediculous that squatters can occupy someone elses property and have any rights to stay there when descovered.

Just because they maybe have nowhere else to go does not give them the right.

They take advantage of water and other utilities in someone elses property which is theft.

If the owner physically removes these squatters from their property the owner has then broken the law! How can this be right?

These people ARE criminals - for some strange reason however they aren't

]]> Sun, 12 Jun 2011 11:30:01 UTC 10661059 mr khalid rashid [Signature #1373] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10658967?utm_medium=rss i cannot believe that this practice is still being carried out in the modern world and the fact that civil society have turned a blind eye to it!!

Squatting will become widespread nationally within a few years. Stop it now!!

]]> Sun, 12 Jun 2011 02:01:21 UTC 10658967 Ms Lora Janice [Signature #1372] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10639216?utm_medium=rss Tue, 7 Jun 2011 11:40:22 UTC 10639216 Mr David Harle [Signature #1371] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10627242?utm_medium=rss It cannot be right for someone to occupy a property and the landlord to have difficulty removing them.

]]> Mon, 6 Jun 2011 05:00:13 UTC 10627242 Anonymous [Signature #1370] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10612985?utm_medium=rss Fri, 3 Jun 2011 12:35:06 UTC 10612985 Mr Chris Wingfield [Signature #1369] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10584351?utm_medium=rss Tue, 31 May 2011 03:48:36 UTC 10584351 mrs lynsey rose [Signature #1368] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10567123?utm_medium=rss Sat, 28 May 2011 03:57:18 UTC 10567123 sally cakebread [Signature #1367] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10551412?utm_medium=rss Squatters are thieves.

]]> Thu, 26 May 2011 11:13:06 UTC 10551412 Mr Sanj Nahar [Signature #1366] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10526305?utm_medium=rss These kind of people are liberty takers if they have not worked or owened a property how would they every no the pressure of trying to make a better life! Instead they come a long and sit in some one elses property making there life hell because they can't be bothered to do it for them selfs.

]]> Mon, 23 May 2011 08:37:08 UTC 10526305 Mr Robert Jordison [Signature #1365] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10526303?utm_medium=rss Mon, 23 May 2011 08:37:05 UTC 10526303 Mr Jeremy O'Neill [Signature #1364] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10485577?utm_medium=rss Wed, 18 May 2011 06:27:24 UTC 10485577 Mr John Davidson [Signature #1363] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10482483?utm_medium=rss Tue, 17 May 2011 05:17:03 UTC 10482483 Ms Anne challis [Signature #1362] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10479420?utm_medium=rss Tue, 17 May 2011 11:35:41 UTC 10479420 Mr Brian Schoepe [Signature #1361] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10476763?utm_medium=rss Tue, 17 May 2011 06:37:39 UTC 10476763 Anonymous [Signature #1360] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10475556?utm_medium=rss Please make squatting illegal

]]> Tue, 17 May 2011 04:34:28 UTC 10475556 Mrs Claudia Burgos [Signature #1359] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10474959?utm_medium=rss It is unbelievable that in this day and age, squatters have so many rights and they of course know it more then anyone. The law needs to change.

]]> Tue, 17 May 2011 03:29:01 UTC 10474959 mr Matt Maguire [Signature #1358] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10474764?utm_medium=rss Tue, 17 May 2011 03:07:08 UTC 10474764 Mr David Jenkins [Signature #1357] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10474359?utm_medium=rss Squatting is a violation

]]> Tue, 17 May 2011 02:13:14 UTC 10474359 Mr Anonymous [Signature #1356] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10465206?utm_medium=rss Mon, 16 May 2011 04:53:47 UTC 10465206 Anonymous [Signature #1355] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10454054?utm_medium=rss The costs of squatting end up - inevitably - paid or by tenants. Not good.

]]> Sat, 14 May 2011 02:46:19 UTC 10454054 Mr Andrew Harding [Signature #1354] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10449037?utm_medium=rss Fri, 13 May 2011 04:53:54 UTC 10449037 Ms Annette Turner [Signature #1353] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10444877?utm_medium=rss Outlawing squatting is common justice. It is already illegal in Scotland, the rest of the UK should have similar protection.

]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 12:13:54 UTC 10444877 Anonymous [Signature #1352] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10443110?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 May 2011 08:08:07 UTC 10443110 Ms Helen B [Signature #1351] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10441862?utm_medium=rss As an Agent, I have seen the damage caused by squatters in various properties over the past 20 years. Some clients have had nervous breakdowns as a result of discovering squatters within their properties. Squatters should have no legal rights whatsoever to occupy any property, be it residential or commercial. Why are we so soft on them? They are criminals and, as such, the law needs to be changed to reflect that. Whatever happened to the old adage that a man's home is his castle?

]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 05:03:07 UTC 10441862 Mr Robert Johnson [Signature #1350] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10427735?utm_medium=rss Tue, 10 May 2011 05:48:04 UTC 10427735 Mr Michael McGill [Signature #1349] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10424082?utm_medium=rss Mon, 9 May 2011 03:16:51 UTC 10424082 Miss Ling Chong [Signature #1348] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10423823?utm_medium=rss As a house owner who has been a victim of squatters I know how totally ridiculous the law is. Good, honest people who pay their taxes become victims and are offered no help at all whereas the real criminals get offered free legal aid (which we pay for). Why is it that the scumbag squatters have more rights than we do and when they are finally evicted we cannot charge them for all the damage they have caused, utilities they have used?!?

]]> Mon, 9 May 2011 02:47:10 UTC 10423823 Miss Oiwah Chong [Signature #1347] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10421142?utm_medium=rss Mon, 9 May 2011 09:55:14 UTC 10421142 Chris Freeman [Signature #1346] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10418532?utm_medium=rss Interim Possession Order please Sir ?

Yeah right.

]]> Mon, 9 May 2011 02:38:28 UTC 10418532 Mr Philip Prescott [Signature #1345] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10403434?utm_medium=rss Fri, 6 May 2011 01:46:34 UTC 10403434 Mr Adrian Scott [Signature #1344] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10386047?utm_medium=rss Wed, 4 May 2011 01:07:56 UTC 10386047 Mr Anonymous [Signature #1343] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10346088?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Apr 2011 01:35:09 UTC 10346088 Mr Nir Zamek [Signature #1342] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10339697?utm_medium=rss Thu, 28 Apr 2011 02:17:50 UTC 10339697 Mr Peter Rimmer [Signature #1341] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10329860?utm_medium=rss Why should I as an investor be penalised by a system that allows strangers to steal one's property from under your nose....

I also want Rates on empty properties abolished.....since you don't pay road tax on a car if its not on the road.....and there's no time limit to getting it back on line either ...so why a time limit on housing and ampty properties...not all Landlords have bundles of spare cash.

]]> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:55:26 UTC 10329860 Ms Luisa Burnel [Signature #1340] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10327564?utm_medium=rss Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:52:23 UTC 10327564 Mr Suresh Parikh [Signature #1339] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10307028?utm_medium=rss Sun, 24 Apr 2011 12:22:20 UTC 10307028 Anonymous [Signature #1338] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10273538?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:56:30 UTC 10273538 Mr Michael Gilroy [Signature #1337] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10270668?utm_medium=rss People from other countries laugh at us and cannot believe that squaters are treated as temporary tenants with legal rights - rather than thieves and burgulars.

]]> Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:13:39 UTC 10270668 Mr Miren Shah [Signature #1336] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10268012?utm_medium=rss Mon, 18 Apr 2011 03:37:52 UTC 10268012 Mr T Barnard [Signature #1335] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10267881?utm_medium=rss Mon, 18 Apr 2011 03:23:14 UTC 10267881 Mrs. Ruth Hudson [Signature #1334] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10265083?utm_medium=rss Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:46:53 UTC 10265083 Mr. Anonymous [Signature #1333] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10257328?utm_medium=rss Sun, 17 Apr 2011 01:03:10 UTC 10257328 Ms. Anonymous [Signature #1332] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10257314?utm_medium=rss Sun, 17 Apr 2011 01:00:01 UTC 10257314 mr DAVID BAXTER [Signature #1331] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10256646?utm_medium=rss I WAS UPSTAIRS WHEN I HEARED A NOISE I CAME DOWN TO FIND A MAN SITTING IN THE KITCHEN I TOLD HIM TO LEAVE HE SAID I AM A SQUATTER I TOLD HIM I WAS CALLING THE POLICE YOU BROKE INTO MY HOME HE LAUGHT AND SAID PROVE IT HE GOT UP AND LEFT NOW I AM SCARED IN MY OWN HOME

]]> Sun, 17 Apr 2011 11:03:45 UTC 10256646 mr andy rees [Signature #1330] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10250980?utm_medium=rss Sat, 16 Apr 2011 11:23:54 UTC 10250980 Miss Eleri Randerson [Signature #1329] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10246933?utm_medium=rss Stop squatting

]]> Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:54:27 UTC 10246933 Mr Graham Swann [Signature #1328] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10238461?utm_medium=rss Its Property Theft

]]> Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:36:50 UTC 10238461 mr michael whitty [Signature #1327] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10238401?utm_medium=rss Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:28:17 UTC 10238401 mr RODNEY HOPWOOD [Signature #1326] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10237915?utm_medium=rss Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:23:46 UTC 10237915 ms saffron smith [Signature #1325] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10228694?utm_medium=rss the landlord has no law on its side, its an outrage that people expect you to pay for their roof and all that goes with that even if it causes you incredible financial hardship. squatting has no consequences!

]]> Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:32:45 UTC 10228694 Jubilate Property Limited [Signature #1324] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10226276?utm_medium=rss The act of entering and occupying property which lawfully belongs to another person, without authorisation by the owner of the property, should be classed as a criminal offence, whether or not criminal damage is caused to the property by such squatter.

If squatters are unable to produce any tenancy, licence or other tangible evidence that the property owner has granted them the right to enter and occupy the property, then police should have powers to remove squatters, by force if necessary.

]]> Wed, 13 Apr 2011 06:28:26 UTC 10226276 mrs Anonymous [Signature #1323] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10225513?utm_medium=rss Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:21:14 UTC 10225513 Mr Brian Kidman [Signature #1322] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10219783?utm_medium=rss Tue, 12 Apr 2011 02:00:33 UTC 10219783 Mrs Janet Prendiville [Signature #1321] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10218817?utm_medium=rss Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:55:14 UTC 10218817 Mr Ian Pulford [Signature #1320] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10215600?utm_medium=rss Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:20:43 UTC 10215600 Mr Rick Mobbs [Signature #1319] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10206010?utm_medium=rss Mon, 11 Apr 2011 03:51:28 UTC 10206010