Changes to Traveller Site Licences

Area

Proposed key additional changes to the Terms and Conditions

Fire safety (previously health and safety)

• Any privately rented caravan/chalet must have an annual gas boiler inspection and a smoke alarm and carbon monoxide detector installed which is checked monthly.
• Council fire risk assessors must be allowed into your home to carry out an annual fire-risk assessment and you must follow any recommendations made.
• The Council’s Traveller Officer must be allowed on to your pitch to complete monthly Health and Safety inspections.
• Your pitch must not be over-crowded with mobile homes, chalets, and other vehicles and that there is a six (6) metres space between other caravans/mobile homes on an adjacent pitch.  You will be required to move your caravan/mobile home to ensure compliance with this requirement.
• Gas bottles or storage containers must be used to store LPG gas bottles. 
• No more than two (2) LPG canisters can be kept on your pitch at any one time (whether empty or full). No LPG canisters or solid fuel should be stored  beneath or between caravans, or in the amenity block. You must remove any disused LPG canisters from the site and return them to an authorised supplier.
• Interlinked smoke alarms in caravans, dayrooms or sheds must not be interfered with in anyway
• Electrical inspection certificates for your caravan must be produced on request. 
• A multi-purpose fire extinguisher and fire blanket must be near where you normally cook. 
• Candles, portable oil or paraffin heaters must not be used and  liquid petroleum gas or any other flammable or explosive substance must not be stored in your caravan.
• Gas cookers must be installed by a qualified installer on the Gas Safe register (previously CORGI registered) and they must be regularly serviced.
• There must be a distance of 2 metres between caravans on a pitch.

Harassment and hate crime (previously harassment and nuisance)

You and anyone living with you or visiting you (including children) must not: 

• harass, threaten to or encourage others to  harass anyone because of their age, colour, culture, disability, ethnic origin, sex, gender reassignment (living as the sex opposite that shown on their birth certificate), nationality, race, religion or sexuality
• do anything causing  or likely to cause a nuisance, danger, annoyance or disturbance to anyone living, visiting or working around your home at any time of the day or night, particularly between 11pm and 7am.

Domestic violence and abuse (previously domestic violence)

Domestic violence and abuse is any threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between family members or two people who are or have been in a relationship. It can affect anybody regardless of their sex, age, disability or sexuality and happens in all walks of life. The violence can be psychological, physical, sexual or emotional. It can include honour-based violence, female genital mutilation and forced marriage.

a) You or any member of your household must not commit or allow domestic violence, or cause any member of your household to be too afraid to leave or return to your home.

b) If you or any member of your household mistreats a child or a child is taken into care as a result of any abuse or mistreatment, we can take legal action to evict you or anyone living in your home.

c) If you or anyone living in or visiting your home breaks any of these conditions, we may take legal action against you, including the following.

• Asking a court for an antisocial behaviour injunction (ASBI), an antisocial behaviour order (ASBO) or any similar type of order that is introduced in the future. These are court orders to stop nuisance behaviour. If you break them, you can be fined or sent to prison, or both. You may also be banned from entering your property or the area.
• Asking the court to give us possession of your home and evict you and anyone living there.
• In the case of domestic violence, asking the court to remove you from the home so that you lose your tenancy, leaving your partner as the sole tenant of the property.
• Asking a court to change your secure tenancy to a demoted tenancy for a certain period of time.