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In case of settling on a personal gypsy/ traveller site in Carlton, Cambridge, or Chippenham, your rights may be considered according to the kind of location in Cambridge and if it is secured with certification and planning authority.
If you stay on a protected site, you will have more rights than those who live on an unprotected site in Cambridge and you will also enjoy more right against eviction in Cambridgeshire.
An unprotected site in Cambridge is an area that does not have a site license and planning permission and if you are living in such a place in Cambridgeshire, your rights are limited, and the landowner can easily evict you from a site.
As a tenant of common law who's being evicted in Chippenham, Carlton, or Cambridge, you should have a few rights, including the right to a minimum of one month's notice, but you may find this difficult to enforce in Cambridge.
If you do not take consent of the legal occupier and occupy private land in Cambridge, for example, the tenant, or the landowner, steps can be taken by the owner to evict you.
In certain cases, the property holder in Cambridgeshire may not be aware of your settlement on their property until the locals start complaining.
It may be worth talking to the landowner in Cambridge about your situation and they may want you to stay in if they don't need the land for anything else and your camp in Cambridge, Carlton, or Chippenham is not causing any problems.
If the legal occupier or landowner wants you to vacate from Cambridge, they can:
Ask the court in Cambridgeshire for the legal right to remove you from the land in Cambridge
Tell the council to act in Cambridge
Ask the Cambridge police to evict you
Get rid of you from Cambridgeshire themselves
The landowner in Cambridge can apply for an eviction order in the sheriff court if the travellers have camped on a private land in Cambridge, Chippenham, or Carlton without the owner's permission.
The court sends the Summary Cause Summons to the travellers, this document contains information about the hearing date of your case in Cambridge.
If a summons is sent to you, consult a law centre or Denbigh Franks immediately.
The local Citizens Advice can help you get in touch with your solicitor in Cambridge who will assist you.
When the hearing goes to court, you will not have any defence since you are trespassing on private land in Cambridge, however, your solicitor can assist you to delay the removal in Cambridgeshire on certain grounds such as you are unable to leave because a family member is sick or pregnant.
But you will have to vacate if the sheriff grants an eviction order in Cambridge.
The interdict order is a Cambridge, Carlton, or Chippenham civil court order that requests you not to do something or to stay away from a specific place or person in Cambridgeshire.
You will get sent some court papers, if a landowner in Cambridge asks for an interdict order, which explain what you will be required to do.
It may be that the landowner in Cambridge either wants you to keep off the site or vacate it if you have got in already.
Once you receive these documents from court, you will need to get in touch with a lawyer or law department in Cambridgeshire.
The local Citizens Advice might be able to help you get in contact with a solicitor in Cambridge.
You may be able to defend the action in court with help from your solicitor.
Your situation would be assessed by the court in Cambridge, Chippenham, or Carlton first before the interdict is granted.
For instance, if the interdict is going to cause great hardship to you and your household in Cambridge, the sheriff won't grant the interdict.
However, if things don't go as planned and you refused to vacate the site in Cambridge after the interdict is granted, the Police in Cambridgeshire may be involved to arrest you.
If the Cambridge landowner can provide evidence of your violation of any condition in the interdict, you may have to pay a fine, or even be sentenced to jail.
You may easily be removed from a Cambridge property by the local council in Cambridgeshire in case the owner has no planning authorisation for a particular section on their property or in the event that the location is likely to trigger public health concerns.
The police will only be called upon as a last resort kind of thing in Chippenham, Carlton, or Cambridge.
If the landowner in Cambridge wants, he/she can evict you out of their land without having an order from the court.
However, you can report against them in case they cause damage to your belongings or injure you in any way and you can report them to the police in Cambridge for the charges.
If this is the case, make sure you gather as much evidence as you can to support your allegations and you can film or take pictures of the scene in Cambridgeshire with your mobile device.
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