Squatters have been evicted from 67 Putney High Street for the third time, using an emergency criminal court order that gave police the power to act within hours.
Officers from Putney’s Safer Neighbourhood Team helped landlord Corndale Estates Limited remove the squatters on Wednesday afternoon after securing an Interim Possession Order at Wandsworth County Court. The order, obtained with just two hours’ notice under Section 76 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, makes remaining on the premises a criminal offence. That is why police could act on Wednesday when they could only watch in March.
When squatters broke back into the same address on 9 March, three weeks after High Court bailiffs had formally repossessed it, officers attended but said there was nothing they could do. The civil possession route gave police no power to intervene. The criminal route did.
A group of men and a woman were stopped at the premises, had their details checked, and were allowed to leave. No arrests were made. The building is now secure.
The door of 67 High Street now carries two sets of documents. The Interim Possession Order (issued by Deputy District Judge Mitchell on 30 March and served on 31 March) is the newer arrival. The other has been there for weeks: a Wandsworth Council licensing notice showing that a new tenant had already applied to open a convenience store at the address before Wednesday’s eviction. Mr Dave Singh Khurana applied to trade as Putney Convenience Store with a licence to sell alcohol until 00:30 every night. The consultation deadline was 30 March. Corndale was pursuing the squatters through the courts at the same time as lining up a new occupier.
A final possession hearing is listed at Wandsworth County Court on 20 April 2026.
This part of the High Street has been at the centre of squatter occupations since May 2025. The full story of how the crisis developed is documented in our earlier coverage. Wednesday was the third eviction.
The High street does not need another convenience store. The location of this one is even more moronic given the proximity it is to Lidl,SBRY,Waitrose,Marks. Who lends the money to Mr Khurana?