John Fareham and John Abbott have been told they have secured the removal of the unauthorised traveller encampment on the former Aneurin Bevan Lodge site on Hotham Road North.
Having been tipped off by local residents that they were arriving, we went to see for ourselves. We found several caravans already on site with the accompanying towing vehicles and a petrol generator already in use. Others were expected to arrive and indeed arrived later. We therefore notified the police, since the travellers appear to have gained entry to the site by force, and notified officers of the Council. We were told the necessary steps would be taken to get court action to shift the travellers. On the evening following their arrival, the travellers were served with Section 77 notices to leave by 9 am Monday morning. If they haven’t gone by then, the Council will go back to court to ask for permission to evict them. In the longer term it is of course for our local MP to press for improved powers to deal with such situations as this.
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