Find out your rights and discover where you can get help in Thatcham, Woodley, or Reading if you are in trouble of getting evicted by an authorised place or an unauthorised camp site in Reading.
Mostly the caravans living travellers stay on authorised permanent sites in Reading that are owned by another private site on or a Council/house Association.
It is essential to know that you can be evicted from a permanent property in Berkshire only if the landlord in Reading is successful in providing a solid reason along with a court order.
One can be removed from a location in Reading, Thatcham, or Woodley in following cases:
Default in paying the pitch fees in Reading
Fail to maintain your truck or mobile home in Berkshire
You are behaving antisocially in Reading
Additionally, you may be evicted if your mobile home in Reading is not your main home.
Most Councils in Berkshire will allow you to use your caravan for several weeks on an annual basis.
In order to obtain an eviction order in Thatcham, Woodley, or Reading, the landlord in Reading must demonstrate that:
Notice of this has been given and a timeframe provided to amend the damage
You've broken the terms of the agreement
Then the court will schedule a hearing in Reading in which the whole scenario will be looked at.
You may come to the hearing with a legal representative or solicitor in Berkshire.
At the hearing, the Berkshire court will decide whether it should order your eviction in Reading and end your agreement.
You may get a pitch on an authorized transit site in Thatcham, Reading, or Woodley provided by the Council.
You can stay on a transit site in Reading for 3 months in your mobile home.
Without a court order, the Berkshire council will terminate your right to stay on the site in Reading by sending you a written notice of 4 weeks.
It may also end your stay on the Reading site if you broke or went contrary to any of the terms of your agreement.
If that were to be the case, the Council would inform you of what you did wrong and give you enough time to vacate the site.
In each location in Reading there is a lack of approved permanent and transportation places.
You must get planning permission and a site license to park a Caravan in your own land in Woodley, Thatcham, or Reading for living you have bought to eradicate such eviction problems.
If you don't have a permit or planning permission, the Berkshire council is allowed to stop you or anyone residing on the property in Reading through legal means.
The council has powers to:
Give you an enforcement notice in Reading
Apply for a court order to take you off the land in Berkshire
This term is used if you are living on your land in Reading until enforcement action is taken by the council.
This is named 'tolerated' unapproved development.
If you park your caravan and live in a place that does not belong to you without the legal approval of the landowners in Reading, Woodley, or Thatcham, that is an illegal encampment, and could include:
Verges, roads, and lay-bys in Reading
Private, farmland in Berkshire
Forests, parks, wastelands in Reading
Negotiated Stopping In Berkshire's Reading
In certain cases, you may decide to go for discussed stopping contract that can help you to remain on the property in Reading for some time.
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 Woodley, Reading, or Thatcham.
The Berkshire 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.
In the event that you do not vacate from Reading as requested, the council or police may:
Grant structured guidance for you to quit the land in Reading
Approach the magistrates' court in Berkshire and apply for a removal order
Before you would be served a formal eviction notice, the rights of the children present in Reading, Thatcham, or Woodley must be considered.
However, it's a criminal offence not to vacate an unauthorised encampment in Reading after a formal direction.
You may face being arrested or charged, and your vehicles may be confiscated.
You can defend yourself from not vacating from Reading on time by providing proof that someone in the household was ill, there was an emergency issue or vehicle break-down.
If your mobile home cannot be parked in a legal manner in Berkshire, you qualify as homeless.
If you are homeless or going through an eviction in Reading in the next eight weeks, you can seek assistance from the council.
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