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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
Russ, what you are describing is not squatting - it is illegal occupancy / breaking and entering - two entirely different kettles of fish which are usually easily remedied by means of a cursory call to your local constabulary.
Unless your house has been derelict, abandoned or unoccupied for a length of time, very considerably longer than two weeks I might add, then anyone who would endeavour to occupy it woud be breaking the law - but certainly not squatting.
This is part of the problem - squatting, and the rationale / legal entitlement to do so, is very misrepresented and misunderstood.
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Transfer of the legal title of the land takes 12 years, however due to a European ruling deemed this as illegal as no compensation needed to be given to the previous owner, which is against the human rights of the previous owner.
Squatting itself was criminalised The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act of 1994
There's a house over the road from my parents.
It's been vacant since it was built about a year ago.
Someone could smash a window (illegal act encouraged by many squatters advice web sites), get the window replaced, change the locks and refuse to leave.