If you are facing eviction in Cumbria from authorised or unauthorised site you can check your rights and any platform you can get help from in Barrow-in-Furness, Kendal, or Carlisle.
In most cases, gypsies and travellers park their campers and caravans on warranted properties in Cumbria which are owned by a housing association or comes under private ownership.
Bear in mind that you may only be evicted from a lasting location in Cumbria in the event that the owner in Cumbria has sufficient ground and requests an eviction order from court.
You can easily be moved off a place in Barrow-in-Furness, Carlisle, or Kendal due to:
Default in paying the pitch fees in Cumbria
Your caravan for the mobile home is not maintained in Cumbria
Behave antisocially in Cumbria
More so, you may be evicted in case you seldom utilise your portable home in Cumbria.
But most council lands in Cumbria will allow you to travel in your caravan for a number of weeks each and every year.
The Cumbria site owner must prove the following things to get an eviction order in Barrow-in-Furness, Kendal, or Carlisle:
They prove that the gypsy got enough time to vacate the site
You have breached the deal for a time
A date will be given by the court for possession hearing in Cumbria to assess the entire situation.
Solicitors in Cumbria are allowed to be a part of this court hearing.
It is up to the Cumbria court to decide if it is feasible to end the agreement with the landowner and order the eviction in Cumbria.
Some councils offer authorized moving camps in Kendal, Barrow-in-Furness, or Carlisle.
If you get a pitch on a transit site in Cumbria, you camp there in your mobile home for a maximum of 90 days.
The Cumbria Council will have the right to end your stay on a transit site in Cumbria by 4 weeks' notice without a court order and they don't have to provide reason.
In case you break a term of the agreement, the council can also terminate your stay on the site in Cumbria.
But they must give you notice of what you've done and a reasonable time to vacate.
In each location in Cumbria there is a lack of approved permanent and transportation places.
If you have purchased your own land in Kendal, Barrow-in-Furness, or Carlisle, you need a site licence to park a caravan and stay inside and planning permission.
The council in Cumbria has the right to bar you or anyone else from camping without planning permission and licence for the site in Cumbria.
The council may:
Serve you with an enforcement notice in Cumbria
Apply for a court injunction for your eviction from Cumbria
You can usually proceed to stay on your property in Cumbria unless the council takes enforcement action.
This is called unauthorized ' tolerated ' development.
An illegal encampment in Barrow-in-Furness, Carlisle, or Kendal refers to setting up and staying in a caravan in an area without legal permission to be there, and this includes:
Lay-bys, roads, and verges in Cumbria
Farmlands, and private land in Cumbria
Forests, parks, wastelands in Cumbria
Negotiated Stopping In Cumbria In Cumbria
In some places in Cumbria, you may opt for a negotiated stopping agreement stopping that will help you not to be evicted immediately.
With this agreement, you agree that you won't leave waste on the land and you won't light fires in Carlisle, Kendal, or Barrow-in-Furness.
Generally, the Cumbria council allows one to live on the premises for one month temporarily.
Discuss with a Gypsy and Traveller expert at the local council.
If they don't leave when they were asked to, the Council or the Police in Cumbria might be forced to:
Serve you formal notice to evict the land in Cumbria
Obtain a removal order from the Cumbria court of the magistrate
The council and police have to consider the best interests of children in Kendal, Carlisle, or Barrow-in-Furness before they can serve an eviction order that is formal.
Failure to vacate an unauthorized campsite in Cumbria after a formal order has been served is a criminal act.
You could be arrested and fined, or have your vehicles taken away.
You may put on a defence in the court in case you were unable to shift in Cumbria due to mechanical breakdown, sickness or any other emergency.
You are regarded a destitute in case you have nowhere to lawfully park your convoy in Cumbria and live in.
Seek guidance from the council in case you are a homeless person or facing removal in Cumbria in the next eight weeks.
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