Check your rights and where to get assistance in Marchwood, Eling, or Hillyfields if you are expelled from an authorized site or an unauthorized camp in Southampton.
Mostly the caravans living travellers stay on authorised permanent sites in Southampton that are owned by another private site on or a Council/house Association.
The site owners in Southampton have to provide a valid reason and court order if they want to evict you from a permanent site in Hampshire.
You're at risk of eviction in Marchwood, Eling, or Hillyfields if you:
There is pitch fees payment failure in Southampton
Fail to upkeep your mobile home or caravan in Hampshire
Unbecoming behaviour in Southampton
You need to use the mobile home in Southampton as your main residence otherwise, you'd have to go through eviction.
Some council sites in Hampshire allow you to travel in your caravan for a couple of weeks annually.
For the landowner in Southampton to acquire a court order in Eling, Marchwood, or Hillyfields, they must:
An eviction notice given a reasonable time to rectify issues between you
You have breached agreement terms
There will be a hearing in Southampton for possession where the court takes into consideration what happened.
You may participate with a legal representative or an attorney in Hampshire.
The Hampshire court analyses the case and draws a verdict regarding whether to end the contract and call for your removal in Southampton or otherwise.
Many councils provide approved sites for transit in Marchwood, Hillyfields, or Eling.
If you are given a pitch on a temporary site in Southampton, you may be allowed to live there in your caravan or mobile home for about 3 months.
The council in Hampshire has the power to end your right to stay on the site in Southampton by giving you 4 weeks' written notice without a court order.
You can also be evicted by the council from the Southampton site if you breach any agreement term.
However, for this, you will be given a notice detailing the violation and time will be provided to sort the things out.
Due to a scarcity in most areas in Southampton of transit and authorised permanent sites.
If you have purchased your own land in Hillyfields, Eling, or Marchwood, 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 Hampshire can take legal action to make sure that no one stays on that land in Southampton.
The council has powers to:
Serve your implementation notice in Southampton
Court orders to remove you from your land in Hampshire
This term is used if you are living on your land in Southampton until enforcement action is taken by the council.
There also exists tolerated unauthorised development.
An unauthorized campsite in Hillyfields, Eling, or Marchwood means parking up and staying in your caravan in a place where you are not legally allowed to, including:
Lay-bys, roads, and verges in Southampton
Farmlands in Hampshire
Forests, parks, and wilderness in Southampton
Negotiated Stopping In Southampton, Hampshire
In a few locations in Southampton, you can reach a negotiated stopping agreement so that you don't move out immediately.
You make simple agreement terms, for instance, no fires or littering the site in Eling, Hillyfields, or Marchwood.
And the Hampshire council agree to a short term stay - which is normally to a maximum of 30 days.
Reach out to the council to talk to a gypsy traveller liaison officer.
In the event that you do not vacate from Southampton as requested, the council or police may:
Formally ask you to vacate the land in Southampton
Approach the magistrates' court in Hampshire and apply for a removal order
The requirements of the kids present on the land in Marchwood, Hillyfields, or Eling will be giving priority before the tenants are given a legal notice for eviction.
Not leaving an unauthorized encampment in Southampton following a formal direction is a criminal offence.
Your vehicles may be taken away or you can be fined or arrested.
If you are incapacitated with a mechanical breakdown, illness, or any other emergency, you may use this as a pardon for not leaving Southampton.
If one does not possess an authorised spot to park their vehicle in Hampshire, one can be labelled as homeless.
You qualify for help from the council if you're in the verge of being evicted or already homeless in Southampton.
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