Ensure that you know where to go for assistance as well as your rights in Bishop's Cleeve, Cheltenham, or Shurdington if you are removed from an unproved settlement or licensed location in Cheltenham.
When traveling on mobile homes or caravans, most travellers and gypsies stay on authorized sites in Cheltenham which are owned by a council, a private site owner, or housing association.
You may be evicted from any permanent rest site in Gloucestershire if the owner of the land in Cheltenham has a justification and receives a court order to evict.
Site owners in Cheltenham, Bishop's Cleeve, or Shurdington can evict you if:
Unable to give pitch fees in Cheltenham
Fail to keep up maintenance of where you are living in Gloucestershire
Act in an antisocial way in Cheltenham
On top of this, one could be evicted if the home on the land in Cheltenham is not used as a main home of residence.
But, most sites managed by the local authority in Gloucestershire will allow you to move in a convoy for a number of weeks yearly.
In order to obtain an eviction order in Shurdington, Bishop's Cleeve, or Cheltenham, the landlord in Cheltenham must demonstrate that:
Notice is served to you and adequate time has been given to you
You have broken any clause from the agreement
Bringing the matter to the court in Cheltenham would lead to the examination of the case by the court.
You may attend the hearing in Gloucestershire with a legal representative or solicitor.
After looking through the facts, the Gloucestershire court will decide to end the agreement and proceed with the eviction in Cheltenham.
You may find approved transit sites in Bishop's Cleeve, Shurdington, or Cheltenham offered by some councils.
If you manage to obtain a location on the site in Cheltenham, you are permitted to live there in your portable home for a maximum of 3 months.
The Gloucestershire council have the power to terminate your stay in Cheltenham without a court order by giving you 1 month written notice and they don't need to have an explanation for this.
You can also be evicted by the council from the Cheltenham site if you breach any agreement term.
In that case, you will get a notice of what you did wrong and a reasonable amount of time to settle the issues.
Approved transit and permanent sites are limited everywhere in Cheltenham.
If you have purchased your own land in Bishop's Cleeve, Cheltenham, or Shurdington, you also need to plan and get permission and license to park your mobile home or Caravan in your land.
If you lack these things i.e. permission and license, then a legal action can be taken by the Gloucestershire council to stop you or someone else from living on land in Cheltenham.
Some of the steps include:
Serve you an enforcement notice in Cheltenham
Apply for an injunction in court to evict you from the land in Gloucestershire
In general, you can continue living on your own land in Cheltenham as long as the council doesn't take action of enforcement.
There also exists tolerated unauthorised development.
An illegal site in Bishop's Cleeve, Shurdington, or Cheltenham is where you have situated your caravan or mobile home eon a piece of land without legal right, and this includes:
Verges, lay-bys and highway in Cheltenham
Farmlands, and private land in Gloucestershire
Wasteland, forests and parks in Cheltenham
Negotiated Stopping In Gloucestershire's Cheltenham
Instead of vacating the area in Cheltenham immediately, a negotiated stopping agreement may be reached in some selected regions.
Negotiated stopping agreement is when you admit some basic terms like not littering on the land or lighting fires in Bishop's Cleeve, Shurdington, or Cheltenham.
You would be granted a temporary stay for about one month by the council in Gloucestershire.
You can talk to a Traveller and Gypsy council liaison officer.
If you're unwilling to move on when officials in Cheltenham have asked you to do so, then they could:
Hand you a legal order to remove yourself from the land in Cheltenham
Obtain a removal order from the Gloucestershire court of the magistrate
Before they give you a formal direction leave, they must consider the needs of any children on site in Cheltenham, Shurdington, or Bishop's Cleeve.
You are convicted to crime if you don't leave the campsite in Cheltenham even after being served with the formal direction notice.
You can be arrested, or fined, and your vehicles may be towed.
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 Cheltenham site.
If you don't have any legal place where you can park your mobile living home in Gloucestershire, it then you are categorised as homeless.
If you are homeless or facing eviction in Cheltenham within the next 8 weeks, you can ask the council for help.
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