Know your rights and get help in Battlesbridge, Danbury, or Chalk End when you are about to be removed from a legal or unauthorized encampment site in Chelmsford.
Most Gypsies or Travellers living in mobile homes or caravans stay on authorised permanent sites in Chelmsford owned by a Council or housing association or Private site owner.
The owners of a private site in Chelmsford can only evict you if they get a court order on reasonable grounds for eviction for the COUNTY site.
Well, you can be evicted from the land in Chalk End, Battlesbridge, or Danbury if:
You are unable to pay the pitch fees in Chelmsford
Fail to upkeep your mobile home or caravan in Essex
You are behaving antisocially in Chelmsford
If you don't use the mobile home in Chelmsford as your principal residence, you also risk eviction.
Some council sites in Essex allow you to travel in your caravan for a couple of weeks annually.
The property owner in Chelmsford can get the court order in Battlesbridge, Danbury, or Chalk End if they proved:
They have served you with notice and ample time to keep things in order
The agreement term is broken from your side
There is likely to be an ownership hearing in Chelmsford where the judge is interested at what has happened.
You may choose to be in attendance during the Essex hearing accompanied by your lawyer or legal representative.
At the hearing, the Essex court will decide whether it should order your eviction in Chelmsford and end your agreement.
There are several transit sites in Chalk End, Battlesbridge, or Danbury that are provided by some councils.
If you manage to obtain a location on the site in Chelmsford, you are permitted to live there in your portable home for a maximum of 3 months.
The local authority in Essex has jurisdictions to end your dwelling on the site in Chelmsford without a court summons and may give you a 4-weeks documented notice and they don't require providing grounds.
You can also be evicted by the council from the Chelmsford site if you breach any agreement term.
If you are found guilty, the council will provide you with the notice and a good amount of time to set things together and leave.
Approved transit and permanent sites are limited everywhere in Chelmsford.
If you have bought your own property in Battlesbridge, Chalk End, or Danbury to get around this issue, you require planning permission and a site license to park and sleep in a caravan there.
If you lack these things i.e. permission and license, then a legal action can be taken by the Essex council to stop you or someone else from living on land in Chelmsford.
Some of the steps include:
Serve you an enforcement notice in Chelmsford
Apply for an injunction in court to evict you from the land in Essex
Often, you can still live on your land in Chelmsford unless the council decides to give you an enforcement notice.
This will be counted as tolerated unauthorized development.
An illegal camp site in Battlesbridge, Danbury, or Chalk End is created when you park up and set up your caravan on a site where you have not been authorized to, these include:
Roads, verges and lay-bys in Chelmsford
Farmland and any other type of private land in Essex
Forests and parks in Chelmsford
Negotiated Stopping In Chelmsford, Essex
In order to not get removed immediately in Chelmsford, one can go for a settlement, a stopping agreement which is available at some places.
Negotiated stopping agreement means you could agree to simple terms such as not leaving waste or lighting fires on the land in Battlesbridge, Chalk End, or Danbury.
In exchange, the Essex council usually agree for you to stay on the land for up to one month.
To get a temporary stay on the land, the traveller must talk to a council officer.
In the event that you do not vacate from Chelmsford as requested, the council or police may:
Give you a formal direction to vacate the land in Chelmsford
Provide you with a magistrate's removal order in Essex
Children's needs must be thought of in Battlesbridge, Chalk End, or Danbury by the police or council before they provide you with a formal order for eviction.
It is an offence of criminal nature to not leave the unauthorised land in Chelmsford after you have received a formal eviction order.
You may have your vehicles removed, and you could be arrested or fined.
Your defence could range from illness, mechanical breakdown or other types of crisis if you are capable of proving it as a reason for not moving from the Chelmsford site.
If your mobile home cannot be parked in a legal manner in Essex, you qualify as homeless.
You can ask for help from your council if you're homeless and already facing eviction in Chelmsford.
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