Commercial Eviction Services

Some sites are regularly targeted by traveller communities, often commercial land and open spaces that can accommodate large volumes of vehicles, trailers, and individuals.

Typical examples include holiday parks and green spaces, where the appearance of travellers can cause long-term detriment, blocking planned events or works, prohibiting access by authorised users and having a negative impact on local communities.

Trained Enforcement Agents are equipped to deal with potential violence or aggression, safeguarding landowners and businesses from direct communications and using the legal provisions for minimal force.

Where encampments include multiple travellers, vehicles and animals, a professional trespass response is strongly recommended, with officers able to work with police responders to mitigate any escalation and protect you from exposure to litigation.

When commercial tenants violate their lease terms, engage in unauthorised or unlawful activities, overstay their agreement without permission, or fail to pay rent and owed service charges, landlords and property owners are entitled to initiate a commercial tenant eviction procedure. This legal action is referred to as “forfeiture” and serves as the swiftest means to ensure the permanent eviction of the tenant from the property.

Clearway’s Tenant Eviction Service offers indispensable support to commercial property managers seeking to regain control of their premises. Often, tenants are in arrears, have neglected proper maintenance of the unit, sublet without permission, or have otherwise violated their contractual obligations. Read our guide: How to evict a commercial tenant.

Commercial landlords are commonly concerned about the legalities of squatter evictions, yet require immediate access to their property. Squatters can prevent legitimate, paying tenants from moving in, devalue a property or premise, and cause landlords untold expenses in repairing damage where individuals have been living illegally in a property, often without mains power or running water.

Clearways’ Enforcement Agents work with property owners to enforce eviction orders and appreciate the complexity that is sometimes involved with these evictions, especially where squatters have been in situ for longer periods.

Contrary to misconceptions, squatters have no right to lawfully occupy a property they have no ownership rights to. ‘Squatters’ rights’ only exist after a decade of continuous occupancy, or 12 years for properties or land not registered with HM Land Registry.

As always, we can refer landlords and concerned business owners to litigation representatives if they require robust court judgments to uphold their interests and remove squatters from their property.

Commercial land can attract unwanted tenants and illegal occupants, with the difficulty of securing open spaces from unauthorised vehicles, individuals, and travellers. A qualified, experienced Enforcement Agent, or team of agents, can react quickly and serve eviction notices within as little as 24 hours.

We also provide security assets and safeguards to prevent evicted occupants from returning, and can recommend protocols to prevent your land from becoming a target in the future.

Options include security patrols by badged security guards and K9 patrols, security gates, shutters and fencing, CCTV surveillance, property alarms and around-the-clock monitoring through our accredited Alarm Receiving Centre.

Post-eviction, we can clear the site, implement countermeasures, and provide a visible security response to deter prospective criminals and intruders.

Common law evictions refer to situations where a tenant has been in situ for some time, without landlord consent, with rental payments in serious arrears, and without or beyond the terms of a previous tenancy agreement.

These evictions generally require a court judgement in favour of the landlord and an eviction notice, with a professional Enforcement Officer to implement, removing the tenant and any property, in some cases requiring physical removal where a tenant contradicts the ruling or eviction notice.

Evicting an individual or business tenant from a rental property can be tense and potentially volatile. Still, it is often necessary to reclaim access to your premises and remove a non-paying or unlawful tenant who would otherwise have refused to leave.