The changing architectures of adverse possession and a political aesthetics of squatting

This chapter discusses the changing architectures of adverse possession, looking at the criminalisation of squatting in residential buildings and the effects of the Land Registration Act 2002, LRA 2002. It also argues the criminalisation of residential squatting via the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, LASPOA 2012, and farewell to the relativity of title through the LRA 2002, as the 'removal of the other' from within law. The chapter examines the 'changing architectures of adverse possession' in terms of a political aesthetic, a spectacular performance of law followed by resistance that demonstrates a totalising project of law and the removal of its integral element of impurity in a wish to control in the name of individual property rights. Sections 75 and 76 are with regard to Interim Possession Orders (IPO), the new fast-track way of evicting squatters.