When you are staying on a privately run Traveller/Gypsy site in Banks, Southport, or Churchtown, rights are completely dependent on the type of site in Southport and if it is protected or not or it is with the site license and planning permission are all the main factors.
Unlike people who stay on unprotected sites in Southport, residents who stay on protected sites have more rights, in addition to an increased immunity from being evicted in Merseyside.
The term unprotected site is generally referred to the site in Southport which does not have planning permission and a site license and if you are living on such site you would not have many rights in Merseyside and it will be quite easy for the land/site owner to evict you.
As a tenant of common law who's being evicted in Churchtown, Banks, or Southport, you should have a few rights, including the right to a minimum of one month's notice, but you may find this difficult to enforce in Southport.
If you happen to camp on private land in Southport without permission from the landowner or legal occupier such as the tenant, the owner can take measures to remove you.
In fact, the owner may not be aware that you're there until they receive complaints about you residing on their Merseyside land.
The best thing you can do to stay on a land is to contact the Southport landowner and discuss the situation with them and the landowner would happily agree upon providing the land in Southport, Churchtown, or Banks if they don't need it for any else or you won't cause any damage.
If you are expelled by the Southport landowner or occupier, they may:
Apply to the court in Merseyside for a possession order needing you to move out of the land in Southport
Request the council in Southport to evict you
Ask the police in Southport to take some measures in order to move on
Do it themselves in Merseyside
An eviction order in court can be requested by the legal occupant or landowner in Southport to remove you from the land if you occupy a warranted area in Southport, Churchtown, or Banks without taking permission from the owner.
In this case, you will receive a court order which is also known as the Summary cause Summons, giving you the date of hearing in the court in Southport.
However, you need to get advice from Denbigh Franks or solicitor straight away if you receive a summons.
Help is also available from the local Citizens Advice to get you in contact with a solicitor in Southport.
Since you are encroaching on the landowner's property in Southport, your defence grounds are not so strong, however, the eviction in Merseyside can possibly be delayed by your solicitor based on human rights grounds, for instance, if it would be impossible for you to leave the land because a member of your family is sick.
You will have no choice but to move on from Southport if the Sheriff provides an eviction order.
Interdiction implies to a notice by the civil court in Banks, Southport, or Churchtown informing you to move out of a certain place or away from somebody or never do a particular thing in Merseyside.
If the landowner in Southport applies for an interdict, the court will deliver papers to you with instructions of what is to be done.
For example, you may be sent a prohibition ordering you to move away from the land of the owner in Southport, or preventing you from moving in the first place.
On receipt of the order, you are to contact a solicitor in Merseyside to help defend your action in court.
Your local Citizens' Advice can also help you in finding a lawyer in Southport who can assist you in this situation.
You may be able to defend the action in court with help from your solicitor.
Before the court in Banks, Southport, or Churchtown grants an interdict, it will first investigate your situation.
For instance, the sheriff will most like not to give an interdict in Southport if the order will cause serious hardship to your household.
In the event that you get an interdict order and you refuse to abide by the terms including vacating personal property in Southport, the Merseyside police may be called in and have you arrested if the notice allows.
Also, if the petitioner - landowner in Southport could prove that you broke the interdict, you may be fined or imprisoned.
The Merseyside council can easily remove you from a portion of land if the owner of the land in Southport does not have planning permission to stay in a place on land that belongs to them or if there is a possibility to pose dangers to health of the public.
The police can ask you to move as a final resort in Southport, Banks, or Churchtown.
A landowner in Southport can evict you without a court order, they have such rights.
But if their action is based on violence that causes damage to your vehicles or injures you in any way you can call and report to the police in Southport and they made face charges.
If this route is taken, then it is advisable to gather up as much proof as you can to help your case, for instance, take photos or film the incident in Merseyside.
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