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Cost-Effective Eviction Services for Travellers, Squatters & Trespassers in Newport

If travellers, squatters or trespassers have occupied your land or property without permission, 24 Hour Bailiffs Ltd can help you consider the appropriate lawful enforcement route. Call our Newport team to discuss your situation and the next steps.

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Traveller & Unauthorised Encampment Evictions

An unauthorised encampment may involve people residing or intending to reside on land without the occupier's consent, often with caravans or other vehicles.
Potential situations can include:

  • Private farmland

  • Development land

  • Commercial premises

  • Industrial estates

  • Car parks

  • Construction sites

  • Vacant land

  • Agricultural land

  • Business premises

What Happens When Travellers Occupy Private Land?

  • Assess the situation
    Establish who owns or occupies the land, how many people and vehicles are present, what activity is taking place and whether there is damage, disruption or distress.

  • Ask the occupants to leave
    Reasonable steps to ask trespassers to leave can be relevant to the exercise of certain statutory powers.

  • Consider the appropriate enforcement route
    Depending on the circumstances, this may involve police powers, local-authority powers, court proceedings or injunctions, or another lawful possession route.

  • Enforcement
    Where appropriate legal authority has been obtained, enforcement can then be carried out in accordance with the relevant order or statutory powers.

The law has recently changed. The Crime and Policing Act 2026 amended the rules concerning unauthorised encampments, including the prohibited return period under section 61. Current Home Office guidance was updated on 29 June 2026 to reflect these changes.

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Unauthorised Occupants on Your Property

Unauthorised occupants can create disruption, damage and loss of use for landowners and property owners. We can assist with situations where:

  • Travellers have entered private land without permission

  • An unauthorised encampment has been established

  • Squatters have occupied a property

  • Trespassers are refusing to leave

  • Vehicles or caravans have been brought onto private land

  • Commercial premises or development land has been occupied

  • Landowners are experiencing disruption, damage or loss of use

Squatter & Trespasser Evictions

Squatters and trespassers can require different enforcement routes depending on the circumstances.

How Can Squatters Be Removed?

 

This may involve:

  • Police involvement where a criminal offence may have occurred

  • Interim Possession Orders

  • Possession proceedings

  • Enforcement of a possession order

  • Considering the distinction between squatters and former tenants or licensees

If you are dealing with unauthorised occupants, travellers, an encampment, squatters or trespassers, contact us to discuss your situation and the appropriate next steps. 

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GET IN TOUCH

24 Hour Bailiffs Ltd provides professional support with traveller, squatter and trespasser evictions across the UK. Contact our team today to discuss your situation.

Call us: 01227 750966

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