A group of travellers who set up camp in Broadway Meadow car park have been served with a court order to leave by tomorrow evening.
They arrived on the Council owned land near Wilmslow Leisure Centre on Thursday 17th April and six caravans and six vehicles have been parked at the end of the car park since.
A spokesperson for Cheshire East Council said: "A group of Travellers, consisting of six caravans and six vehicles are currently based on the car park at Wilmslow Leisure Centre. They arrived there last Thursday.
"Council officers have visited the location and we are now moving forward with the legal process to secure possession of the site.
"They were served with a notice to quit yesterday, but were still there today. They have now been served a court order to leave the site by tomorrow (Friday) evening."
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Time to get tough!
Just waiting CEC to cancel a PCN because a motorist had only overstayed in a car park by 3 days.
If we are going to build a site there can only be one location..... Malpas.....where councillor M Jones can have constant reassurance that all is well on his watch........and he will have blighted CEC of a traveller problems .... And as for more illegal camps....... well i say illegal...... i should distinguish that if law abiding Joe public parked his caravan and work vehicle on earls road, rectory field car park,tescos access road ( where 1 van and lorry located ) then.. make no bones about it you would have more fixed penalties than a rigged football match.......but because illegal parking is not prosecuted, and echr rights of the law abiding are breached in favour of those who choose not to comply to tax,vat.. legislation, etc ..... this will continue ad infinitum.
The footpath at the rear of rectory fields car park is now strewn with their rubbish .... and no one in authority is really overly concerned.
The council don't even report these as crimes.
If you look at the crime maps (police.uk) you will see that there are no reported crimes for fly tipping in Earls Road, nor is last years £10,000 of damage to the Wilmslow High School playing fields recorded either.
With "no crime" committed, the police don't have to investigate anything, so no one is prosecuted. Fly tipping carries up to 5 years imprisonment, but the police who tell us they are doing everything they can and our councillors who say they take a tough stance on fly tipping are just lying to us - they can't even be bothered to report these a crimes.
Instead, they hope that by turning a blind eye to this, we will accept gypsy sites as a better alternative. So don't fall for their deceitful tactics and oppose both the illegal and legal campsites.
They repeat their incompetence regularly and there are only financial consequences for council tax payers, not the offenders.
Still, now we have our Clean Team, I think CEC won't even bother with the mess.
What makes me think that CEC and these travellers are in cahoots?
Roll on May 2015.