Illegal encampments: applying for a possession order

This Business Guide gives an overview of the process of getting a possession order from the court with a view to evicting trespassers from your land.

Applying for a possession order is one of several options available to you in evicting trespassers. The other options are listed in our Business Guides:

• “Illegal Encampments: reacting to trespassers” (BG961 which also explains how to prevent trespassing from taking place and the initial steps that should be taken (and what to avoid) when first noticing trespassers on your land; and
• “Illegal encampments: police and local authority powers” (BG008).