Empty Properties suitable for Squatting in Dulwich

[pinkhalf]

Jeremy, actually, I don't care about housing benefit - but the logic of the argument struck me. If its a question of paying for people to live somewhere they can't afford, you'd have to target anyone who claimed HB by definition. Squatters may not pay economic rent, but then neither do those who claim HB and receive relief on council tax - which is apparently what people object to because where is the contribution?

[LadyJane]

Wow - what a varied community of onlookers we have responding on here! Some friendly - Some bordering on fascist! Well I urge all the unfriendly to go to anger management classes asap! Perhaps the contribution I could best make to this area would be to invite all the angry east dulwich empty property owners, and the renters who pay off their landlord home-owner mortgages for their 20th house,over to my new SQUAT for a big old rave up with some MDMA and dogs - I'll get my dealer to source you all! Perhaps that will satisfy the stereotype. LOL

I've received an enormous amount of private messages whereby friendly people have sent me local empty properties and I've been checking them out all day. Some even have TO RENT signs outside. Well a THANK YOU to all you. God Bless the soles of your shoes! Hopefully its not the old bill trying to bust my ass!

[missus]

Fascist!?! Trol-lol-lol-lol-lol!

[LadyJane]

Maybe this thread should be renamed THE LIST OF EMPTY PROPERTIES IN THE DULWICH AREA...?

Just write down the addresses here for the whole community to see it but please make sure the building is not occupied by an old granny or grandma or ANYONE! I've got family in the area myself! Afraid I won't be in this evening and tonight/or for a while unless I can pick up someones wi-fi from my new location because I'll be doing you know what!

[LadyJane]

Oh....and if anyone wants me to 'look after' their empty gaff just give me a private message and I'll save you some Council Tax - by paying for it!

Best wishes xxx

[DaveR]

Squatting was certainly common in London in the 70s, at least in part because inner london gentrification hadn't got going and so there were lots of empty, run down houses that it was not economical to let. There wasn't much opposition because nobody cared much about absentee landlords who had let the properties decay.

It's a bit different now - if you go looking for a place with a 'To Let' sign and then find an open window (yeah, right) and move in as a squatter, you're just a thief in all but name.

[trizza]

Best of luck Lady Jane, but if you're going to squat in a residential home, i'd get your skates on. Not long now until this will be criminalised.

As an aside, it's interesting to see the signs that are put up by squatters referring to Section 6 Criminal Law Act 1977 and warning not to use violence to enter premises are completely meaningless in most cases where squatters move into someone's residential home. Nothing stopping residential occupier from breaking into their own home.

Useful guidance here: http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/housing/pdf/1868817.pdf

Best make sure you pick a place where the owners are unlikely to force entry themselves...

[missus]

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/house-and-home/property/squatters-rights--and-wrongs-2144131.html

This makes for an interesting read, for both sides of the debate... I personally disagree with squatting in this day and age where living costs are so expensive. Don't see why you should have the choice of opting out of paying via living in someone elses, albeit empty, house who IS paying for it. But hey, thats just my POV.

[*Bob*]

LadyJane Wrote:

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> I've received an enormous amount of private

> messages whereby friendly people have sent me

> local empty properties and I've been checking them

> out all day. Some even have TO RENT signs outside.

> Well a THANK YOU to all you. God Bless the soles

> of your shoes! Hopefully its not the old bill

> trying to bust my ass!

Oh Lordy.. you've overcooked it. Is this your first time?

[TonyQuinn]

As I have said this whole thread is a joke and I suggest Mr/Mrs/Ms Administrator that you close it up for good. The good burghers of Dulwich are being made to look awfully silly. Best TQ

[Chick]

pinkhalf Wrote:

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> Appropo this thread, it turns out I need a new

> home for my several dogs on a string (mange,

> benefit claimants, never worked and carry

> immigrant fleas) - can anyone help me break into a

> small, overpriced workers cottage with designer

> furniture in East Dulwich and alienate all my

> neighbours? Please?

There is a very unpleasant racist anti immigrant tone here.

[pinkhalf]

Okay, your turn to insert as many daily mail cliches as possible into a sentence, I didn't get house prices in, admittedly.

[Gimme]

Great work LadyJane.

You probably haven't found a property as a result of this thread but it is one of the most entertaining threads for months.

Have you now moved into the derelict house on ED Grove? Someone is definitely squatting there now. Maybe too late if you aren't.

As a matter of interest, stories abound of squatters who end up doing up the place they are squatting in and the owners being very pleased with the results when the squatters actually move out. Is this ever true or just urban myths?

[aspidistra]

I hear the old Unigate dairy building in West Dulwich has been empty for a decade.

[ladies21]

LadyJane you should try Clapham and Brixton, where many occupants of short life co op properties have been re housed and their co ops dissolved by Lambeth Council. Unfortunately Lambeth doesn't appear to be doing anything with the properties that they have emptied, so they're there empty, we know not for how long, but some have been unoccupied for over a year now. They're all in reasonable condition as the co ops were in occupancy for 30years, they have the basics, water, electric, gas, but are in danger of falling in to disrepair fast if left empty, so of you go!

[nunheadbelle]

This thread has given me a good laugh, well done LadyJane to making people sit up and take note.

I can see many spluttering and choking into their lattes.

BTW I think the concrete house has been reclaimed, I'm sure it was featured on a programme this morning as being brought up to scratch after 14 years.

['bout now]

LadyJane=Rubyshoes.

[LadyJane]

Hope that there are none of these in the Dulwich area;

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/oct/16/empty-houses-london-wealthy-owners

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

This property has a failed planning application and is currently empty.

Best place to squat in SE22

[KidKruger]

nunheadbelle Wrote:

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> This thread has given me a good laugh, well done

> LadyJane to making people sit up and take note.

> I can see many spluttering and choking into their

> lattes.

> BTW I think the concrete house has been reclaimed,

> I'm sure it was featured on a programme this

> morning as being brought up to scratch after 14

> years.

AT LEAST 21 YEARS THAT I KNOW OF.

[Sue]

See the thread in this section about the programme today about the concrete house .....

Oh, and nice one PGC :))