As a landlord do you find yourself dealing with the misuse of your personal or commercial property? One of the biggest threats that a property owner faces is that of trespassers and travellers settling around their property. To prevent the potential damage both trespassers and travellers can cause to your property, you will want to make sure that it is very well secured. If your property is not fully secured, many insurers will not even payout, leaving you even further out of pocket.
To prevent your property from being trespassed you may want something strong and practical to prevent access. Many landowners prefer to take preventative measures to keep trespassers out in the first place to avoid any legal intricacies that may follow. You may build fences or concrete security barriers to stop unauthorised vehicle access from travelling onto your land. Concrete security barriers can be placed across a property’s entrance or around its perimeter to block vehicular access, which not only protects your land but also lowers costs because fewer barriers are needed.
Why Use Concrete Barriers to Protect Your Site?
To begin with, concrete barriers are low-cost site protection mechanisms. Apart from being a good security measure, these barriers are a great support in traffic management ensuring vehicles are out of your property’s vicinity. Also, people can’t move the barriers here and there to squeeze in their vehicles. This is a particularly useful solution for large events, as concrete barriers can make the flow of traffic and/or pedestrians easier and safer, resulting in a better overall experience!
Concrete barriers have grown in popularity with property owners as these blocks are designed to deter all attempts at forced entry into the site, considering all types of vehicles, speeds, and attack angles. Concrete barriers make it impossible for the intruder to enter the property and mostly anyone with a criminal intention would drop the idea to smash their vehicle through a solid concrete barrier as opposed to a window or door.
Removing Trespassers and Travellers from Your Land
When you want to remove trespassers from your land you should take legal advice from security companies. They are experienced in dealing with such issues on an everyday basis, they would be able to guide you with the legal procedures in the UK to deal with travellers and trespassers. Shergroup is one such company you can approach to help you out with the problem of trespassers, getting them evicted legally or securing your site with the best security mechanism like concrete barriers, CCTV, security guard and dog handler services to deal with these problems effectively.
Using Concrete Barriers
When you use concrete barriers, they work as a visual deterrent to potential intruders or trespassers. These barriers obstruct their view and make it difficult for the trespassers to know which access points they can use to trespass. Getting concrete barriers dropped on your land by the security specialists will stop people from attempting to trespass as it appears far more effort than it is worth.
Concrete Barrier Hire
Use Shergroup’s service of placing concrete blocks in just the right access and egress points to prevent unauthorised vehicle access to your land. Our temporary concrete barrier hire helps prevent access against unwelcome visits from trespassers in vehicles, people wanting to fly-tip or set up traveller encampments and helps with insurance considerations.
The risk of moving these large blocks is evident so we only use the services of our trusted partners, who turn up and drop the blocks exactly where they are needed. For renting these blocks, we can help you figure out how many blocks you’ll need and how much it will cost to rent them for as long as you need them. Then you can place your order. These are massive blocks and once placed can only be lifted when you want them to be removed. We can arrange the delivery and placing of the blocks and their removal when the time comes.
What Can You Do If Travellers Settle on Your Land?
You can make it clear that this is your land if you are not putting yourself in danger; it may be prudent to post ‘no trespassing signs. You or a cop can inquire as to why they are there and how long they intend to stay. Contact Shergroup if you need to reclaim ownership of your property. We can advise you on the best course of action and begin the civil court proceedings and processes to obtain possession under Part 55 of the Civil Procedure Rules. This is likely to involve:
- Asking the travellers to leave (landowner’s responsibility)
- Issuing and serving a court summons
- Seeking a possession order in a court of law
- Serving the possession order, and, if necessary- Executing a warrant for possession with county court bailiffs
- Most of the time, once the order has been served, the travellers will leave on their own. In more complicated cases, private bailiffs can help you remove unauthorised occupiers without a possession order.
Summing-up
If you take our advice, we’d say the eviction process to remove illegal trespassers is lengthy and expensive. It’s better if you consult your insurance company on the level of security required. Once you know you can approach us to help you tighten up your security and keep the trespassers off your property. Our concrete barriers security protects your land from any unauthorised access and saves you thousands of pounds worth of damage to your property. Call us on 0845 890 9200 and talk to our security advisors to get you a block drop.