Know your rights and get help in Abbas Combe, Burton, or Bath when you are about to be removed from a legal or unauthorized encampment site in Bath.
When traveling on mobile homes or caravans, most travellers and gypsies stay on authorized sites in Bath which are owned by a council, a private site owner, or housing association.
Note that you can only be removed from a permanent site in Somerset if the owner of the site in Bath has a good reason and applies for a court order.
You can face removal from a site in Bath, Burton, or Abbas Combe when you:
You are unable to pay the pitch fees in Bath
Don't maintain your Caravan in Somerset
Behave in a way that threatens public peace in Bath
You also chance eviction if as your main residence you don't use the homes that are mobile in Bath.
Some council sites in Somerset allow you to travel in your caravan for a couple of weeks annually.
For a court to issue you an eviction order in Abbas Combe, Bath, or Burton, the site owner in Bath must prove that:
They have provided you with the notice and appropriate time to leave this site
You have breached the terms of the agreement
The court in Bath is responsible for setting up the possession hearing date when they will assess the situation.
You can attend with a legal representative or solicitor in Somerset.
Then the Court in Somerset determines whether it is rational to issue the eviction order in Bath by ending your agreement.
Some councils offer authorized moving camps in Burton, Bath, or Abbas Combe.
If you are given a pitch on a temporary site in Bath, you may be allowed to live there in your caravan or mobile home for about 3 months.
The Somerset council can send you the 4 weeks written notice to evict you from the Bath site as they do not need the court order to evict you but, they will provide you a solid reason for eviction.
Furthermore, they can remove your right to live on the transit site in Bath if any rules in the agreement have been broken.
They will have to give reasons for eviction on the notice and time to put your things together.
There are only a few transit and licensed sites all over in Bath.
If you have solved this problem by buying your personal property in Abbas Combe, Burton, or Bath, you are required to get a site license and planning permission before you can park a caravan and start living there.
If you're without planning permission and or a site licence, then the Somerset council is permitted to take a legal process to stop you or anyone else from being able to live on the land in Bath.
The council can:
Giving you an enforcement notice in Bath
Apply for a court order to take you off the land in Somerset
You can live on the land in Bath unless you are prevented from doing so by the court.
This is referred to as a "tolerated" unauthorized development.
An illegal camp site in Abbas Combe, Burton, or Bath is created when you park up and set up your caravan on a site where you have not been authorized to, these include:
Lay-bys, verges and roads in Bath
Farmland and other private property in Somerset
Parks and Forests in Bath
Negotiated Stopping In Bath, Somerset
In a few areas in Bath, you could come to an agreement that is negotiated stopping as a choice to vacating an area immediately.
Following such a situation, it may imply that you adhere to certain conditions including not disposing waste or light up fires on the property in Bath, Abbas Combe, or Burton.
This agreement is usually for a month and can be granted by the COUNTY council.
If you want to take advantage of this, visit the council and contact a traveller or a gypsy liaison officer.
If you're unwilling to move on when officials in Bath have asked you to do so, then they could:
Hand you a legal order to remove yourself from the land in Bath
Ask for a magistrates' court removal order in Somerset
The requirements of any children on the land in Burton, Bath, or Abbas Combe will be taken into consideration before any legal action or order to leave has been given.
You will be charged as a criminal if you fail to leave an unauthorized encampment in Bath after receiving a formal direction to leave the site.
You could be arrested or penalised, and your vehicles are free to be towed.
If you can prove that you were unable to move on even from Bath after the order due to severe illness, breakdowns with mechanical parts, or other types of emergencies, then you can defend yourself.
You are count as homeless in Somerset if you have nowhere to caravan or live.
It is imperative that they contact the Council to direct them on the best step to take if you are already facing eviction in Bath.
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