If you're facing eviction from an authorized site or an unauthorized encampment in Basingstoke, know your rights and where you can get the appropriate help in Brighton Hill, Hartley Wintney, or Basingstoke.
Most travellers and gypsies who live on mobile homes and caravans reside on an authorized permanent site in Basingstoke owned by either housing association/council or private owner.
You can be evicted from a permanent site in Hampshire if the owner of the Basingstoke land has a reason and gets a court order.
You are risking eviction in Hartley Wintney, Basingstoke, or Brighton Hill if you are practicing the following:
Are unable to raise camping fees in Basingstoke
Barely carry-out maintenance on your mobile home or caravan in Hampshire
Your behaviour is not social in Basingstoke
Furthermore, you risk being evicted if you rarely use your mobile home in Basingstoke.
But, most sites managed by the local authority in Hampshire will allow you to move in a convoy for a number of weeks yearly.
In order to get a court order in Brighton Hill, Hartley Wintney, or Basingstoke, the landowner in Basingstoke must prove:
Notice of this has been given and a timeframe provided to amend the damage
You have breached agreement terms
Then the court will schedule a hearing in Basingstoke in which the whole scenario will be looked at.
You can attend with a legal representative or solicitor in Hampshire.
Here the Hampshire court decides whether it's right to end your agreement and evict you from Basingstoke.
Some councils offer authorized moving camps in Hartley Wintney, Basingstoke, or Brighton Hill.
If you are lucky to have a pitch on a transit site in Basingstoke, you are free to live at that place in your mobile home for a maximum of three months.
However, if the council in Hampshire sees fit, they can terminate one's stay in Basingstoke without involving the court with a four weeks' written notice and don't have to provide any reason for it.
If you break the terms of your agreement, the council can end your right to stay on the site in Basingstoke.
In this case, they must give you a reason of what has occurred and a sufficient timeframe to fix things.
There is an issue of shortage of transit sites and authorized permanent sites in Basingstoke.
In case you wish to purchase land in Brighton Hill, Hartley Wintney, or Basingstoke to find a solution to this issue, you have to get a planning permission and site license to reserve their spot for their caravan and reside there.
If you lack these things i.e. permission and license, then a legal action can be taken by the Hampshire council to stop you or someone else from living on land in Basingstoke.
The council may:
Give you an enforcement notice in Basingstoke
Apply for an injunction in court to evict you from the land in Hampshire
If the council has taken enforcement action, you won't be able to live on your land in Basingstoke.
This is referred to as a "tolerated" unauthorized development.
An unauthorised camp site in Hartley Wintney, Basingstoke, or Brighton Hill would be parking and living in a caravan or mobile home within an area which you have no legal right to do so, including:
Lay-bys, verges and roads in Basingstoke
Farmland and other private property in Hampshire
Forests, parks and garbage sites in Basingstoke
Negotiated Stopping In Basingstoke, Hampshire
If you don't want to move on immediately in Basingstoke, you can use the negotiated stopping agreement.
In such a case, it will mean that you will agree to some terms such as not to dispose of the waste on the land or lighting fires in Basingstoke, Brighton Hill, or Hartley Wintney.
The Hampshire council can allow you to stay on the site for up to a month without any problem.
If you want to take advantage of this, visit the council and contact a traveller or a gypsy liaison officer.
If you don't vacate from Basingstoke after being asked to do so, the council or police might:
Serve you a formal direction to vacate the area in Basingstoke
Apply to the court in Hampshire for the eviction order
Before you would be served a formal eviction notice, the rights of the children present in Brighton Hill, Hartley Wintney, or Basingstoke must be considered.
You will be charged as a criminal if you fail to leave an unauthorized encampment in Basingstoke after receiving a formal direction to leave the site.
The authorities will either impound your vehicle or they will arrest you.
You have the option to defend yourself if you couldn't move from the area in Basingstoke due to illness, vehicle breakdowns or other emergencies.
You qualify to be homeless in Hampshire if the is no place you can park and live in your caravan legally.
If you're already facing eviction in Basingstoke, you can ask the council for help.
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