A large group of travellers who set up their caravans on land in Stapenhill have still not left the site prompting the threat of court action from council bosses
The group, who is believed to be from France, was spotted on council land off Waterside Road, in Stapenhilll, where passers-by contacted the Burton Mail after spotting a group of at least seven caravans arriving on Monday, June 26.
East Staffordshire Borough Council, which own the land, said the travellers had until 11am on Wednesday, June 28, to move, or they would start enforcement proceedings.
A spokesman for the authority said: “Council officers have revisited the location today and the travellers remain on the site. The council will now be applying to the courts in order for the group to be evicted from the land.”
They are understood to be the same travellers who were recently evicted from a site in Leicester.
Earlier this month the group was given permission to stay on land next to a Leicester leisure centre so they could attend a medical appointment, the Leicester Mercury reported .
But Leicester council officials said the group who pitched up in Downing Drive in Evington, on Monday, June 12, were successfully evicted on June 16.
The council had given the travellers, some of whom were from Germany, permission to stay to allow them to attend a hospital appointment.
The travellers, at one point, had 15 caravans in Leicester.
The council says the vacated site in Leicester will be tidied up but added that it was not left in a particularly poor state.
Other sites which have become popular with travellers:
Bargates, in High Street, Burton, has often been a destination for travellers.
Tutbury Cricket Ground was recently taken over by a group, as was Hillfield Lane in Stretton.
