My close friend lives in a large cabin built in the garden of their mother’s garden. This is a roughly 35-40sq m cabin or what you’d call a glorified shed because all it has is electricity, it has no running water, gas or sewage connection. The shed has no planning permission. I’ve also checked a thread which talks about, can you live in a shed in the garden (Is it permitted to live in a shed/cabin in your garden?) which clearly states that it can be used as an annex to the main house, but not if it doesn’t have planning permission and definitely not rented out to someone, and definitely not in the family. My friend has no formal tenancy agreement with the mother and also this is because the mother does not want the rent paid into her account because this would actually affect her benefit claim and therefore gets paid into her other child’s account. The mother is threatening my friend with eviction and although there was a period of a couple of months when rent was not paid, this is now being made back up. I’m just curious what the thoughts are here? I see that you cannot get a section 21 eviction notice here because there’s no tenancy agreement and even a section 8 eviction notice to me looks difficult, I’m just curious to see what rights my friend has?