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Squatters in Mayfair Given Eviction Order
This article is an external press release originally published on the Landlord News website, which has now been migrated to the Just Landlords blog.
Squatters in Mayfair Given Eviction Order
A High Court judge has evicted around 40 people who were squatting in a historic building in central London.
The group were occupying 16 Grosvenor Street in Mayfair, but had “no conceivable defence”1 against eviction, stated Mr Justice Henderson, who granted a possession order to property company Quintain.
A spokesperson for the squatters, Jed Miller, said that the group included people who were homeless and vulnerable due to physical or mental health problems.
The 23-year-old law student insisted: “We will move to the next squat.”1
1 Branagan, M. (2015) ‘Mayfair squatters get order to quit’, Metro, 28 May, p.11
