Check your rights and where to get assistance in Bell Green, Catford, or Deptford if you are expelled from an authorized site or an unauthorized camp in Lewisham.
Most travellers and gypsies who live on mobile homes and caravans reside on an authorized permanent site in Lewisham owned by either housing association/council or private owner.
Note that you can be evicted from the site in Greater London if the owner of the land in Lewisham can get a court order or has a reason for evicting you.
You may be evicted from the site in Deptford, Catford, or Bell Green if you:
Fail to pay the pitch fees in Lewisham
Don't maintain your mobile home or caravan in Greater London
Bad behaviour in Lewisham
Moreover, not using one's caravan in Lewisham as a predominant residence can also result in eviction.
Although, many council sites in Greater London will allow you to travel for several weeks per annum in a mobile home.
Before an order for eviction in Bell Green, Deptford, or Catford is approved, the landowner in Lewisham must prove that:
Notice of this has been given and a timeframe provided to amend the damage
You have breached the agreement terms
A possession hearing in Lewisham will take place in which the court will look at everything and take all sides into consideration.
A solicitor or a legal representative can accompany you in Greater London.
The Greater London court's decision of allowing the eviction in Lewisham or terminating the agreement will be based on the evaluation of the situation.
A couple of councils in the country will provide authorised transit sites in Deptford, Catford, or Bell Green.
You can stay on a transit site in Lewisham for 3 months in your mobile home.
Without an order from the court, the Greater London council can end your rights to live on a transit site in Lewisham as long as you are provided 4 weeks notice in writing.
Your rights to remain on the site in Lewisham may also be terminated if the terms of agreement are violated.
You will be served with a notice indicating terms violated and ample time to rectify.
There are not enough authorised permanent and transit sites in all places in Lewisham.
In case you wish to purchase land in Bell Green, Deptford, or Catford to find a solution to this issue, you have to get a planning permission and site license to reserve their spot for their caravan and reside there.
If you lack planning permission and the site licence, the Greater London council can take legal action preventing you or others from living in the property in Lewisham.
The council has the ability to:
Serve your implementation notice in Lewisham
Requesting for a court injunction to move you out of the piece of land in Greater London
In general, you can continue living on your own land in Lewisham as long as the council doesn't take action of enforcement.
This would be classed as a 'tolerated' development in professional terms.
An illegal camp in Bell Green, Catford, or Deptford involves camping and staying in a caravan where you have no legal permission to do so including:
Lay-bys, verges and roads in Lewisham
Farmlands in Greater London
Forests and parks in Lewisham
Negotiated Stopping In Lewisham In Greater London
There could be a situation in Lewisham where you will enter an agreement to stop from moving which is negotiated stopping.
You make simple agreement terms, for instance, no fires or littering the site in Catford, Deptford, or Bell Green.
The Greater London council generally agrees with temporary living for a maximum of one month.
Being a gypsy or traveller, you may talk with a local authority representative to receive a brief stay.
If you fail to move on from Lewisham when they ask you to do so, the police or council may:
Hand you a legal order to remove yourself from the land in Lewisham
In the court of the magistrates in Greater London apply for a removal order
The needs of any child on the site in Deptford, Catford, or Bell Green should be put into consideration before you are given a formal order to vacate.
You can be charged with a criminal offence if you do not exit the area in Lewisham after being given a formal order.
You may find yourself being put in prison, fined, and having your mobile home impounded.
However, you can delay the eviction if you proved that you couldn't move on from Lewisham due to mechanical breakdown, illness, or another emergency.
If your mobile home cannot be parked in a legal manner in Greater London, you qualify as homeless.
If you may be evicted in Lewisham within 8 weeks or if you are homeless presently, you can request for help from the local council.
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