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Know your rights and the place you can seek assistance in Kennington, Lambeth, or Brixton during an eviction from an approved site or unapproved encampment in Lambeth.
Most Gypsies and Travellers staying in trucks or mobile homes stay on authorized permanent sites in Lambeth, this sites are owned by a Private land owner or Council or Housing association.
It is essential to know that you can be evicted from a permanent property in Greater London only if the landlord in Lambeth is successful in providing a solid reason along with a court order.
You are at risk of being expelled in Brixton, Kennington, or Lambeth if you:
Failure to pay pitch fees in Lambeth
Non-maintenance of the mobile home or caravan in Greater London
Act in an antisocial way in Lambeth
If you are not using the mobile home in Lambeth as your temporary residence, you can also be evicted.
However, you can use your caravan to travel for several weeks in different council sites in Greater London.
In order to get an order for eviction in Brixton, Kennington, or Lambeth, the site owner in Lambeth usually has to show that:
They've given you notice and a reasonable time to put things right
The agreement term is broken from your side
The court will look into the entire situation during the possession hearing in Lambeth.
You are permitted to attend the hearing in Greater London with your solicitor.
It is up to the Greater London court to decide if it is feasible to end the agreement with the landowner and order the eviction in Lambeth.
Transit sites that are authorised in Lambeth, Brixton, or Kennington are implemented by various councils.
If you obtain a pitch in that transit site in Lambeth, you can live there in your caravan for three months.
The council in Greater London has the power to end your right to stay on the site in Lambeth by giving you 4 weeks' written notice without a court order.
Your rights to remain on the site in Lambeth may also be terminated if the terms of agreement are violated.
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 Lambeth.
If you decide to buy your own land in Kennington, Brixton, or Lambeth to solve this issue, you must have a site license and planning permission to park your caravan there and stay in it.
If you do not own a site license and planning permission, the local council in Greater London can take enforcement action to inhibit your stay on the land in Lambeth.
The council can:
Serve a notice for implementation in Lambeth
Apply for court involvement to get you removed from Greater London
One can stay on their property in Lambeth until the council carries out an implementation action.
This is called unauthorized ' tolerated ' development.
An illegal site for camping in Kennington, Brixton, or Lambeth means you are living on land where you don't have permission for it and this may include:
Roads, verges and lay-bys in Lambeth
Farm and other private lands in Greater London
Forests, parks and garbage sites in Lambeth
Negotiated Stopping In Greater London's Lambeth
In a few areas in Lambeth, you could come to an agreement that is negotiated stopping as a choice to vacating an area immediately.
This is a type of agreement in which you can agree on small things, such as leaving no waste and not lighting fires in Kennington, Brixton, or Lambeth.
The Greater London council generally agrees with temporary living for a maximum of one month.
To get a temporary stay on the land, the traveller must talk to a council officer.
If they don't leave when they were asked to, the Council or the Police in Lambeth might be forced to:
Serve you a formal direction to vacate the area in Lambeth
Apply for an eviction order at the Magistrate's court in Greater London
Before they give you a formal direction leave, they must consider the needs of any children on site in Brixton, Lambeth, or Kennington.
After you have been given a formal eviction order, it becomes a criminal offence to not leave the area of encampment in Lambeth.
You could be arrested and fined, or have your vehicles taken away.
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 Lambeth site.
If one does not possess an authorised spot to park their vehicle in Greater London, one can be labelled as homeless.
Look for advice from the local authority if you are homeless or risk eviction in Lambeth within the ensuing 8 weeks.
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