Find out your rights and discover where you can get help in Bridgwater, Yeovil, or Taunton if you are in trouble of getting evicted by an authorised place or an unauthorised camp site in Somerset.
Mostly the caravans living travellers stay on authorised permanent sites in Somerset that are owned by another private site on or a Council/house Association.
The Somerset site owner can only evict you from a permanent site in Somerset if they have a solid reason for eviction and they have gained the court order.
The eviction may take place in Taunton, Bridgwater, or Yeovil if you:
Fail to pay the pitch fees in Somerset
You are unable to maintain your Caravan or mobile home in Somerset
Unbecoming behaviour in Somerset
On top of this, one could be evicted if the home on the land in Somerset is not used as a main home of residence.
Some council sites in Somerset allow you to travel in your caravan for a couple of weeks annually.
The property owner in Somerset must prove the following for you to get an eviction order in Bridgwater, Yeovil, or Taunton:
Notice of this has been given and a timeframe provided to amend the damage
You have breached the deal for a time
A date will be fixed by court in Somerset for ownership hearing to find out the truth.
A solicitor or a legal representative can accompany you in Somerset.
Here the Somerset court decides whether it's right to end your agreement and evict you from Somerset.
Some councils offer permitted transit sites in Taunton, Yeovil, or Bridgwater.
You can stay in your caravan / mobile home if you are successful in getting license to stay on a transit pitch in Somerset for 3 months.
Without a court order, the Somerset council will terminate your right to stay on the site in Somerset by sending you a written notice of 4 weeks.
If you break the terms of your agreement, they can also end your right to stay on the site in Somerset.
They may have to state grounds for your removal on the order and when to pack your belongings.
There are now shortages in the numbers of transit and permanent sites in Somerset.
If you have purchased your own land in Bridgwater, Yeovil, or Taunton, you need a site licence to park a caravan and stay inside and planning permission.
In absence of site warrant and planning permit, the council in Somerset can take legal action to make sure that no one stays on that land in Somerset.
The council has the ability to:
Enforcement notice in Somerset
Apply for a court order to eject you from the land in Somerset
You can live on the land in Somerset unless you are prevented from doing so by the court.
This is known as a 'tolerated' unauthorized development.
An unauthorised camp site in Bridgwater, Yeovil, or Taunton would be parking and living in a caravan or mobile home within an area which you have no legal right to do so, including:
Verges, lay-bys, and Roads in Somerset
Farming land and other private areas in Somerset
Forests, wastelands and parks in Somerset
Negotiated Stopping In Somerset In Somerset
In a few areas in Somerset, you could come to an agreement that is negotiated stopping as a choice to vacating an area immediately.
Negotiated stopping agreement means you could agree to simple terms such as not leaving waste or lighting fires on the land in Taunton, Yeovil, or Bridgwater.
And a temporary stay is agreed by the Somerset council-typically up to a month.
You have to speak to liaison officer at the council.
In case you fail to vacate when told to do so, either the police or council in Somerset will:
Serve you a formal direction to leave the site in Somerset
Ask for a magistrates' court removal order in Somerset
However, if there is a child on the land in Yeovil, Taunton, or Bridgwater, his needs will be considered before asking you to leave.
You need to understand that it can be a criminal offense if you do not leave the land in Somerset after the formal direction.
You could be arrested or penalised, and your vehicles are free to be towed.
However, you may defend your case if there is a valid reason why you could not leave Somerset as a result of an emergency such as a vehicle breakdown or an illness.
You qualify to be homeless in Somerset if the is no place you can park and live in your caravan legally.
If you do not have any where to go and you are homeless in Somerset, you can ask the Council to help you.
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