We are being evicted, some advice please...... the date has arrived......

Careful_with_that_Axe

bm
I think it varies from site to site according to the owners of the land and what permission they have. You could phone a couple of them or have a visit to a few and make a short-list of faves.
Wonder if there's a board here where you could post asking? I'll toddle off and have a look.
J
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blue_monkey_2

Just been looking around, LOL, first tme I've spent time on a caravanning site. It seems you can get 'seasonal ' pitches for around £1,000 for 6-10 months depnding on the site and you can come and go as you please in that time and then you have a pre-pai card for the electric. Seeing as that is a months rent around here I did not think that too bad as a stop ga and with it meaning we are legally entitled to be there anytime in those 10 months (again more than 10 months you have to pay CT), I'd save £100 a month on CT as well. Starting to think i might bebetter off living by the sea!!

I've bee on ukcmpsite.co.uk There is one I want to check out as it is easy for me to get to and from school. I've also foind the Carvan club where it costs £36 a year to join but it seems you can only stay 21 days max at ther sites. I think it is more about being organised and making sure we have a good few months booked and the during the summer we could move to different sites as long as hubby can get to work as I would not hav to get too and from school. As I say, just thoughts for now but I certainly need to find out if there are any sites that people use 'word of mouth' rather than advertised on those big sites.

Edit to add: Yahoo!! Just found a place, I've asked if there is a limit on how long I stay forand I've been told no. It's £10 a night, local - about 5 miles from school. I am so excited I could actually cry as it means that we have an option if the council let us do that - and all that fresh air an space outside. I even think that my husband is coming around tote idea. He *hates* caravans with a passion!! LOL!! But the thought of low rent, endless fresh air for the kids while staying local to my friends is certainly something else to think about.

MummyHol

blue_monkey wrote: »

But it maybe another option, just think, not having to answer to anyone as to when we come and go (they lock the door of the hostel at nights - difficulty is that hubby has to be on call 24 hours a day and can get called out at night - not sure what happens then?? It is part of his job, how does he get out if he gets called out), still have living/cooking/washing facilities and still be able to stay on the list and wait until something comes up housing wise.

You have to have permission to leave within the 'lock down' time (in our hostel it was 11pm until 7am) and have to have a good reason. They HAVE to let you out/in for work as long as you tell them the times in advance. (apart from work they'll only let you out in a emergency- ie to go to the hospital but you have to let the night warden know so he/she can deactivate the alarm.) They aren't allowed to lock the doors for safety reasons (ie fire) but they're alarmed. If you're doing night work, they give you a 'night key' (its actually a fob)

Think the caravan idea is brilliant. SO much better for the kids and you!

If you do go into a hostel (and 2nd stage emergency housing) you will get 7 time points per month, rather than the normal 1 time point per month you get normally.

Have a nice weekend hun xx

ally67_2

hi bm just to let you know not all homeless hostels you have to share the one we were in has been made to family flats [1 and 2 bedroom] loo kitchen and sitting room
the only thing we had to share was the washing mashines and dryers i think most places are now like family flats but i could be wrong
we were in the hostel for 2 years we didnt have the the choice of living in a caravan due to partners heart problemsi if you tell the council that your going to live in a carvan you might not be classed as homless so go careful take care ally

Careful_with_that_Axe

blue_monkey wrote: »

Edit to add: Yahoo!! Just found a place, I've asked if there is a limit on how long I stay forand I've been told no. It's £10 a night, local - about 5 miles from school. I am so excited I could actually cry as it means that we have an option if the council let us do that - and all that fresh air an space outside. I even think that my husband is coming around tote idea. He *hates* caravans with a passion!! LOL!! But the thought of low rent, endless fresh air for the kids while staying local to my friends is certainly something else to think about.

How fantastic to hear you excited!! Tempted to say book it, book it, book it!
Hope the Council have their sensible head on and see how it would be an eminently more sensible place for you and your family.
J
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p.s. You've mentioned your DH's inaction. It's possible he feels emasculated that he can't sort this out and provide for his family?

blue_monkey_2

Thanks All,

Yes, this is why I am going to ask. At the moment we have 103 points - she told us if we was in the hostel we would still have to 'bid' on propeties when they came available but Hol, it is not like where you are, you get one lump of 60 points for being in the hostel, so we would go up to around 130 points. If we lived in a caravan it would 'bump' our points up to 160+. So we would have more points than if we lived in a hostel and not being homeless. Its a weird system, there is no priority for being homeless or anything, we would tell them where we are living and then our points would be adjusted. If that makes sense.

Thanks for the info on the Key Hol, we have so many questions to ask I need to start writing a list to make sure I do not forget anything.

Thanks ally, she also told me that it would be one room in a shared house - so was she lying about this? I don't know, they just push you from oneplace to another but I am pretty certain they are going to tel us to wait for a bailiff to call - I don't think they are supposed to do this. I still did not get the letter from the court so if it does not arrive on Monday I have to give them a call and chase that up, maybe go and collect it as they will need that on Thursday.

Snow is coming tomorrow. Has anyone got it yet??

blue_monkey_2

J, no, I don't think it is that at all, I think it is far easier for him to sit around and let someone else do it (from speaking to frinds most of their husbands are the same) because it is easier - someone else is dealing with it so why bother [kind of attitude], I have asked him to read up on Ryans condition and other things - he sits herefor 3 hours each night with nothing to do, but no, he just wants me to do it. And then he will moan I always make the decisions. If I ask him what he wants to do then he will just say you decide. Its more a case of 'your damned if you do and damned if you don't!!'

ally67_2

hi bm the only rules we has in the hostel was no vistors after 12pm and no one allowed to stay over night we had no lock down ect as for your hubby being on call that cant be helped part off his job
we were not allowed landline phone line .[mind you warden never say no if we wanted to use office phone[9-5]m-f
no pets
but had cameras watching 24/7 which used to !!!! you off [hall ways]
we bought a laptop and used to connect to there system using wireless [they never said anything
no snow in gloucestershire yet

mumoftwins

blue_monkey wrote: »

Thanks ally, she also told me that it would be one room in a shared house - so was she lying about this? I don't know, they just push you from oneplace to another but I am pretty certain they are going to tel us to wait for a bailiff to call - I don't think they are supposed to do this. I still did not get the letter from the court so if it does not arrive on Monday I have to give them a call and chase that up, maybe go and collect it as they will need that on Thursday.

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Hi Bm,

I never received a letter from the Court at all!!!

Also, re: the hostel - the council can't tell you anything yet as they won't know what accomodation is available until the last minute. I , too, was told that the twins and I would sharing one room but when the time came we were given a one bed self contained flat. There was no lock down in there either and no night warden (although personally I think there should be because of the young ones - they stayed up till the early hours!! But weren't noisy.).

Although you say you will get more points if you go into the caravan would this not affect your bids? If you are in a council hostel living in one room or a one bed flat then I would have thought you would be more of a priority need?

blue_monkey_2

Thanks J,

I will give the court a call, I cannot see why they would not give me confirmation, I'll probably have to go and get it. My mum got nothing either. The court asked me for a copy of the letter and when I called the court they told me they would confirm what happened by letter in the mail if I was absent so maybe this is why. I am going to be 'ready' by 16th just in case but I have a strong feeling that they will tell us that we will need to wait for bailiffs like you did - which would be better really but I don't like the fact you can get just a few days notice from the bailiff and then have to be out. Either way, it is nice to know the end is in sight now in a way. I am hoping that one of the elderly people in the village gives up somewhere to go into the sheltered plces so have my mind focused on this for now.

Apparently, being in the hostel does not make you more of a priority, it just gives you more points. I guess you could stay there forever if you did not bid on properties. My husband was telling me that one of his collegues was in hostel accomodation (MH, you was probably in the same one as him at the same time!!) and when he got there some bloke was telling him that he was being evicted from the hostel so to be careful, it turned out that this bloke was in the hostel but refused to bid on anything as he liked it there so much and so they had to evict him from the hostel into another property, LOL!!

Lovely morning playing in the snow, just a few flakes now, it'll be gone by lunchtime.