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Know where to get help in Ebbw Vale/Glyn Ebwy, Pontypool/Pont-y-pwl, or Cwmbran/Cwmbrân and your rights if you are facing eviction from unauthorized campsite in Newport.
Most Gypsies or Travellers living in mobile homes or caravans stay on authorised permanent sites in Newport owned by a Council or housing association or Private site owner.
The landowner in Newport must have a reason for eviction and apply for a court order before you can be removed from a permanent site in Gwent.
You may be evicted from the site in Ebbw Vale/Glyn Ebwy, Pontypool/Pont-y-pwl, or Cwmbran/Cwmbrân if you:
Refuse to pay the pitch fees in Newport
Preservation of one's campers or caravans is neglected in Gwent
You act in an antisocial way in Newport
You need to use the mobile home in Newport as your main residence otherwise, you'd have to go through eviction.
However, if it is a council site in Gwent, they will let you travel in your caravan for some weeks every year.
For an eviction order in Pontypool/Pont-y-pwl, Cwmbran/Cwmbrân, or Ebbw Vale/Glyn Ebwy, the landowner in Newport must show that:
An eviction notice given a reasonable time to rectify issues between you
You have failed to keep a term of your agreement
However, the court in Newport will take a look at what's happened at a possession hearing.
A solicitor or a legal representative can accompany you in Gwent.
The Gwent court will assess the situation and then decide on whether to terminate the agreement and order eviction in Newport or not.
Transit sites that are authorised in Ebbw Vale/Glyn Ebwy, Cwmbran/Cwmbrân, or Pontypool/Pont-y-pwl are implemented by various councils.
If you get a pitch on a transit site in Newport, you camp there in your mobile home for a maximum of 90 days.
However, if the council in Gwent sees fit, they can terminate one's stay in Newport without involving the court with a four weeks' written notice and don't have to provide any reason for it.
Furthermore, they can remove your right to live on the transit site in Newport if any rules in the agreement have been broken.
However, reasons for removal and time to pack up one's belongings will be provided.
All areas in Newport lack access of authorised permanent and transit sites.
If you have purchased your own land in Ebbw Vale/Glyn Ebwy, Pontypool/Pont-y-pwl, or Cwmbran/Cwmbrân, you need a site licence to park a caravan and stay inside and planning permission.
If you're without planning permission and or a site licence, then the Gwent council is permitted to take a legal process to stop you or anyone else from being able to live on the land in Newport.
The council can:
Serve you a notice for enforcement in Newport
Court orders to remove you from your land in Gwent
If the council does not instigate an enforcement process, you may keep on living on the land in Newport.
This will be counted as tolerated unauthorized development.
An unauthorized campsite in Cwmbran/Cwmbrân, Ebbw Vale/Glyn Ebwy, or Pontypool/Pont-y-pwl refers to staying and parking one's caravan at a spot which does not have legal permission, and it includes:
Pavements, outskirts and roads in Newport
Farmland and Private Land in Gwent
Parks, wasteland and forests in Newport
Negotiated Stopping In Newport, Gwent
If you don't want to move on immediately in Newport, you can use the negotiated stopping agreement.
In such a case, it will mean that you will agree to some terms such as not to dispose of the waste on the land or lighting fires in Pontypool/Pont-y-pwl, Cwmbran/Cwmbrân, or Ebbw Vale/Glyn Ebwy.
The Gwent council allows pitching up for a while up to a 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 Newport when they ask you to do so, the police or council may:
Serve you formal notice to evict the land in Newport
Request for removal order from the court in Gwent
The requirements of any children on the land in Ebbw Vale/Glyn Ebwy, Pontypool/Pont-y-pwl, or Cwmbran/Cwmbrân will be taken into consideration before any legal action or order to leave has been given.
It is a criminal offence to remain on an illegal encampment site in Newport after a formal eviction notice has been served.
You could be arrested and fined, or have your vehicles taken away.
You have the option to defend yourself if you couldn't move from the area in Newport due to illness, vehicle breakdowns or other emergencies.
If your mobile home cannot be parked in a legal manner in Gwent, you qualify as homeless.
It is imperative that they contact the Council to direct them on the best step to take if you are already facing eviction in Newport.
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