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Make sure you find out where you can get help and your rights in Telford, Shrewsbury, or Oakengates-Donnington if you are being evicted from an unauthorized encampment or authorized site in Shropshire.
Mostly the caravans living travellers stay on authorised permanent sites in Shropshire that are owned by another private site on or a Council/house Association.
The site owners in Shropshire have to provide a valid reason and court order if they want to evict you from a permanent site in Shropshire.
You may be removed from a property in Shrewsbury, Oakengates-Donnington, or Telford if your:
Failure to pay the pitch fees in Shropshire
Don't upkeep your mobile home or caravan in Shropshire
You act in an antisocial way in Shropshire
On top of this, one could be evicted if the home on the land in Shropshire is not used as a main home of residence.
However, if you need to travel in your caravan, a majority of council sites in Shropshire will permit you to do so for weeks every year.
For an eviction order in Telford, Shrewsbury, or Oakengates-Donnington, the landowner in Shropshire must show that:
They have served you with notice and ample time to keep things in order
Violation of the agreement
The court will look into the entire situation during the possession hearing in Shropshire.
You can attend the possession hearing in Shropshire with a legal representative or a solicitor.
It is up to the Shropshire court to decide if it is feasible to end the agreement with the landowner and order the eviction in Shropshire.
The councils have made many moving sites in Shrewsbury, Oakengates-Donnington, or Telford available for travellers and gypsies.
If you are lucky to have a pitch on a transit site in Shropshire, you are free to live at that place in your mobile home for a maximum of three months.
The Shropshire Council will have the right to end your stay on a transit site in Shropshire by 4 weeks' notice without a court order and they don't have to provide reason.
You can also lose the right to stay on the site in Shropshire if you no longer abide by the terms of the agreement.
Under these circumstances, you will be provided with written notice documenting the reasons and a period of time to leave.
There are not many permanent and transit sites that are authorised in Shropshire.
You may have to buy your own land in Oakengates-Donnington, Shrewsbury, or Telford and you need to obtain a site license and a planning permission before you can start parking your caravan and camping there.
The council in Shropshire has the right to take legal action and stop you from living on the land in Shropshire if you don't have a site licence and planning permission.
The council possesses the right to:
Issue you an enforcement notice in Shropshire
Apply for court involvement to get you removed from Shropshire
You can usually proceed to stay on your property in Shropshire unless the council takes enforcement action.
This process is referred to as a 'tolerated' unapproved development.
If you're illegally living in a place in your caravan in Shrewsbury, Oakengates-Donnington, or Telford, it would be considered as unauthorized encampment, and this includes:
Verges, roads, and lay-bys in Shropshire
Farmlands, and private land in Shropshire
Parks and Forests in Shropshire
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If you don't want to move on immediately in Shropshire, you can use the negotiated stopping agreement.
Negotiated stopping agreement means you could agree to simple terms such as not leaving waste or lighting fires on the land in Shrewsbury, Telford, or Oakengates-Donnington.
This agreement can be approved by the council in Shropshire for up to a month's stay.
Speak with council liaison officer Gypsy and Traveller.
When you are told to leave from Shropshire but you don't do so then Council/police can:
Send you a removal direction to vacate the land in Shropshire
Ask for a removal order from the magistrates' court in Shropshire
The police or council will consider your children in Oakengates-Donnington, Shrewsbury, or Telford's needs before giving you the formal eviction order.
Not leaving an unauthorized encampment in Shropshire following a formal direction is a criminal offence.
You may face being arrested or charged, and your vehicles may be confiscated.
However, you can delay the eviction if you proved that you couldn't move on from Shropshire due to mechanical breakdown, illness, or another emergency.
If you have nowhere to move your caravan to and park legally, you are considered homeless in Shropshire.
Go to the council and ask for help if you have no home or you will soon face eviction in Shropshire in the next two months.
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