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Know your rights and get help in Peterlee, Cleadon, or Seaham when you are about to be removed from a legal or unauthorized encampment site in Sunderland.
Mostly the caravans living travellers stay on authorised permanent sites in Sunderland that are owned by another private site on or a Council/house Association.
Note that you can be evicted from the site in Tyne and Wear if the owner of the land in Sunderland can get a court order or has a reason for evicting you.
You're at risk of eviction in Peterlee, Seaham, or Cleadon if you:
Fail to pay any pitch fees in Sunderland
Non-maintenance of the mobile home or caravan in Tyne and Wear
You are behaving antisocially in Sunderland
If you don't live on your mobile home in Sunderland predominantly, you may be evicted as well.
However, if it is a council site in Tyne and Wear, they will let you travel in your caravan for some weeks every year.
For the site owner in Sunderland to obtain an eviction order in Seaham, Cleadon, or Peterlee, they must confirm that:
They've given you notice and a reasonable time to put things right
You have failed to keep a term of your agreement
The court will set a date for possession hearing in Sunderland to know the exact situation.
You may participate with a legal representative or an attorney in Tyne and Wear.
The Tyne and Wear court determines if the owner's claims are logical to terminate your agreement and authorise the order in Sunderland.
Many councils provide approved sites for transit in Peterlee, Cleadon, or Seaham.
If you are given a pitch on a temporary site in Sunderland, you may be allowed to live there in your caravan or mobile home for about 3 months.
The local authority in Tyne and Wear has jurisdictions to end your dwelling on the site in Sunderland without a court summons and may give you a 4-weeks documented notice and they don't require providing grounds.
Moreover, the Council can also ask you to leave the Sunderland site, if you break any clause of the agreement.
It is compulsory that they would notify you and give you a fair notice to put things in order.
Limited amount of moving sites and warranted permanent sites in Sunderland are available.
In case you wish to purchase land in Peterlee, Cleadon, or Seaham to find a solution to this issue, you have to get a planning permission and site license to reserve their spot for their caravan and reside there.
The Tyne and Wear council has the right to take legal actions against you and prevent you or anyone else from living on the property in Sunderland if you don't have a site license or a planning permission.
The council has powers to:
Giving you an enforcement notice in Sunderland
Apply for a court order to eject you from the land in Tyne and Wear
This term is used if you are living on your land in Sunderland until enforcement action is taken by the council.
This is named 'tolerated' unapproved development.
An illegal camp in Peterlee, Seaham, or Cleadon involves camping and staying in a caravan where you have no legal permission to do so including:
Verges, lay-bys, and Roads in Sunderland
Farmland and other private property in Tyne and Wear
Parks, wasteland and forests in Sunderland
Negotiated Stopping In Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
In a few areas in Sunderland, as an alternative to moving on immediately, you could come to a negotiated stop agreement.
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 Seaham, Peterlee, or Cleadon.
The Tyne and Wear council can allow you to stay on the site for up to a month without any problem.
As a traveller or gypsy, you can chat with a council officer to get a temporary stay.
If you don't vacate from Sunderland after being asked to do so, the council or police might:
Give one a legal order to leave the area in Sunderland
Ask for a removal order from the magistrates' court in Tyne and Wear
Before serving a formal direction notice to you, the needs of any children in Seaham, Cleadon, or Peterlee should be under consideration.
Not vacating the location in Sunderland after a formal eviction order is a criminal offence.
This can result in a fine, imprisonment or towing of your vehicle.
You can stop the eviction by giving evidence of medical emergency or malfunction of transport which prevented you from moving on from the area in Sunderland.
Gypsies are homeless if there will be no place to park their caravan and live in it in Tyne and Wear.
Go to the council and ask for help if you have no home or you will soon face eviction in Sunderland in the next two months.
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