Our policy aims to balance offering help and advice to vehicle dwellers, as well as considering the needs of the local community.
Our Vehicle Dweller Policy
We've developed a pdf Vehicle Dweller Policy(1.21 MB) for Bristol which aims to balance offering help and advice to vehicle dwellers, as well as considering the needs of the local community. The policy:
- aims to reduce the number of people living in vehicles on the side of the road or on council owned land without permission by offering health and welfare advice, and help finding ways to move into fixed accommodation and meanwhile site pitches to those who qualify
- is based on inclusion, support, fair and consistent enforcement, and providing safer alternative places for vehicle dwellers to live
- aims to encourage vehicle dwellers towards housing pathways and designated sites, and support them to move on from living on the highway
There will be times when we'll need to immediately move people living in vehicles. However, in most cases, people will be given up to 3 months to work with us to find alternative options before we move people on.