If you're facing eviction from an authorized site or an unauthorized encampment in Wigan, know your rights and where you can get the appropriate help in Wigan, Ashton-in-Makerfield, or Skelmersdale.
Most gypsies and travellers camp in a permanent site in Wigan in their caravan or mobile home which is owned by a private person or the housing association/council.
Note that you can be evicted from the site in Greater Manchester if the owner of the land in Wigan can get a court order or has a reason for evicting you.
You can easily be moved off a place in Skelmersdale, Wigan, or Ashton-in-Makerfield due to:
Don't settle the pitch fees in Wigan
You are unable to maintain your Caravan or mobile home in Greater Manchester
You act in an antisocial way in Wigan
You need to use the mobile home in Wigan as your main residence otherwise, you'd have to go through eviction.
Most Councils in Greater Manchester will allow you to use your caravan for several weeks on an annual basis.
The landowner in Wigan can only acquire a court order in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Wigan, or Skelmersdale if:
They have provided you with the notice and appropriate time to leave this site
Breaching the terms of agreement
The court in Wigan is responsible for setting up the possession hearing date when they will assess the situation.
You may choose to be in attendance during the Greater Manchester hearing accompanied by your lawyer or legal representative.
The Greater Manchester court can either order eviction in Wigan or they can allow you the stay for a specific period of time.
Authorized transit sites in Wigan, Ashton-in-Makerfield, or Skelmersdale are provided by a few local councils.
You can stay on a transit site in Wigan for up to 3 months in your mobile home.
However, the Greater Manchester Council has the right to end this agreement without any court orders and provide you with a notice with the duration of 4 weeks to vacate the place in Wigan.
Also, your stay on the transit site in Wigan can come to an end in case you have violated your agreement terms.
You will be served with a notice indicating terms violated and ample time to rectify.
In all locations in Wigan, transit sites, and other permanent lands, there is a decrease.
In case you choose to purchase your own piece of land in Skelmersdale, Wigan, or Ashton-in-Makerfield to deal with the problem, you will need a site certificate as well as planning permission in order to pitch tent and start living there.
In case you have no permit and planning authorisation for the site in Wigan, the local authority in Greater Manchester bears the powers to instigate legal proceedings to evict you or prevent others from occupying the piece of land.
The council may:
Giving you an enforcement notice in Wigan
Apply for court involvement to get you removed from Greater Manchester
You are allowed to continue living on your piece of land in Wigan, which can only be hindered by the council's enforcement action.
This is appointed as tolerated unapproved development.
An illegal camp site in Wigan, Ashton-in-Makerfield, or Skelmersdale is created when you park up and set up your caravan on a site where you have not been authorized to, these include:
In the laybys or on the road or verge in Wigan
Farmland and any other type of private land in Greater Manchester
Natural sites such as parks, forests and wastelands in Wigan
Negotiated Stopping In Wigan, Greater Manchester
In some places in Wigan, you may opt for a negotiated stopping agreement stopping that will help you not to be evicted immediately.
With this agreement, you agree that you won't leave waste on the land and you won't light fires in Wigan, Ashton-in-Makerfield, or Skelmersdale.
The Greater Manchester council allows pitching up for a while up to a month.
Being a gypsy or traveller, you may talk with a local authority representative to receive a brief stay.
The council or police in Wigan might do the following if you don't move on when asked to do so:
Give one a legal order to leave the area in Wigan
Apply for a removal order in the court in Greater Manchester
Before they give you a formal direction leave, they must consider the needs of any children on site in Wigan, Ashton-in-Makerfield, or Skelmersdale.
It is a criminal offence to remain on an illegal encampment site in Wigan after a formal eviction notice has been served.
This can result in a fine, imprisonment or towing of your vehicle.
However, you may defend your case if there is a valid reason why you could not leave Wigan as a result of an emergency such as a vehicle breakdown or an illness.
You qualify to be homeless in Greater Manchester if the is no place you can park and live in your caravan legally.
You can ask for help from your council if you're homeless and already facing eviction in Wigan.
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