Travellers who set up camp in Chesterfield to be taken to court

The group set up a camp off Storforth Lane last weekend, with Chesterfield Borough Council saying earlier in the week that they intended to serve an eviction notice and were ‘prepared to take further action’. Now the council says they are awaiting a court date so that the Travellers can be moved on.

Groups can be served a Section 62 Notice that allows a senior officer to direct those in an unauthorised encampment consisting of at least one vehicle and caravan to leave land, if the local authority can provide a suitable pitch for the caravans elsewhere within the area.

Councillor Jean Innes, Chesterfield Borough Council’s cabinet member for housing, said: “We are currently progressing the eviction process in order to move the group of travellers on from Clubby Field, we are waiting for a court date to be confirmed.”