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In addition to the ongoing housing crisis in the UK, the number of accredited sites in Birmingham for travellers to settle on are also limited.
This shortage in Birmingham has led to a dramatic increase in the numbers of travellers setting up unauthorised campsites in Acocks Green, Balsall Heath, or Deritend such as playing fields and car parks.
Governmental statistics suggest that there was a 17% rise in camping on unauthorized grounds in Birmingham from 2016 to 2017.
That is to degrade government's efforts at ensuring socially rented plots in West Midlands, which now grows at a meagre 2% between 2010 and 2017.
Local authorities and landlords in West Midlands who want to take possession of their property and remove travellers have two available options in Acocks Green, Deritend, or Balsall Heath.
The first alternative is to evict travellers in West Midlands by making use of common law.
When using common law, the landowner in Birmingham has the right to start the eviction process in West Midlands and reasonable force can be applied where necessary.
Evictions under common law in Birmingham are carried out by enforcement agents.
The Denbigh Franks enforcement officers will serve a notice that gives the travellers 1 day to leave the Birmingham site.
After the 24-hour deadline expires and the traveller has not vacated the site in Balsall Heath, Deritend, or Acocks Green, then the Denbigh Franks enforcement agent will be back with equipment and if they feel the need police can also be called to remove the Travellers who are still at the sight.
Using the common law in West Midlands offers tons of benefits.
The greatest benefit is the speed of the Birmingham eviction.
In a lot of instances eviction carried out under the common law can be carried out within one day, amplifying there is less time for possible damage to the land or property in Birmingham and therefore reducing fly tipping chances.
The second available option for the West Midlands landowners and the local authorities is to get possession writ.
Getting an order of possession is the first step to evicting in Birmingham under a writ of possession.
The order of possession is made against unknown persons when you're dealing with squatters and travellers in Acocks Green, Deritend, or Balsall Heath.
When the order of ownership has been granted in Birmingham, you can go on and forward it to the High Court, which is then imposed by the (HCEO) High Court Enforcement Officer of Denbigh Franks.
The main advantage of using a possessions writ and transferring to High Court the order in West Midlands is that notice is not necessarily given, as the Denbigh Franks HCEO will decide it depending on the situation, that either to give the notice or not.
To use the second option while dealing with Birmingham travellers is quite beneficial as chances of damage to property or steal from the property are much reduced due to the surprise factor which reduces the chances of resistance to the expected eviction in West Midlands.
Avoiding this types of situations from happening at first is always preferring to deal with an eviction in Deritend, Balsall Heath, or Acocks Green and the potential time and money involved and so there are several things that West Midlands property owners and local authorities can apply to prevent these occurrences from happening.
You need to take immediate steps to forestall these from happening in the first place, so the first thing you can do is to put fences and gates around the land in Birmingham to discourage third parties from going on.
On top of this, trenches, earth bunds, and embankments, are as well good methods of securing an area of land in Birmingham from unauthorized visitors.
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