Travellers have set up a second encampment in Nantwich after moving onto land at Nantwich Cricket Club.
Club officials say they are now working with police to serve them notice to leave the Whitehouse Lane club.
Reports say they travellers arrived last night (July 10), forcing the club to abandon training sessions.
It’s believed there are around six caravans with other vehicles, and are thought to be the same travellers who were moved on from Barony Park in Nantwich a day earlier.
A club source said: “The Police are dealing with an order under Public Order Act 1994 section 61 and are/have served notice that they should leave tonight.”
The travellers camp is currently on the club’s training pitch.
“They would have had break fences to get on the pitch itself,” he added.
“We should have had a game tonight (July 11) but that’s off due to weather. So the club isn’t open.”
Nantwich CC are also due to host matches this Saturday and Sunday, weather permitting.
We have contacted Cheshire Police for an update and are awaiting a reply.
Andy JT – there’s a village green from the 70s that’s missing you somewhere. You may not like the law, in which case you should get up and speak to your MP about changing the law to take away ‘their rights’ if that irks you so much. The rights of property owners are rightfully enforced too, hence the amazing amount of police vehicles that came down to the cricket club, whilst also shutting Sainsbury’s (no doubt of which you probably moaned about too).
If the council provided legal sites for them to stay in Nantwich, as per their statutory rights, they wouldn’t need to set up legal encampments. Maybe the site on the old gas works could be adapted as that’ll never get off the ground as some kind of shopping centre in the current climate.
Yet again we’re plagued with these ‘do as they please’ lot! And to all you nimby’s, please don’t sart ranting about their ‘rights’ as travellers, because they don’t deserve any. They choose to live like they do, and none of them consider anybody’s else’s rights when they take it upon themselves to invade law abiding members of the public’s property or land, be it public ground like the Barony fields, or as in this case, private land?
Perhaps all you do-gooders and nimby’s might not be so sympathetic if these travellers pitched up on your land or next to your house on public land, but you could always tell them that you too have ‘rights’ as a land or property owner and see what response you get from them?
They chose the lifestyle of travelling from one place to another and as such shouldn’t be allowed to encamp anywhere they please. They are just avoiding paying overnight fees etc etc. Where do they get their water from, or where they leave their rubbish, or empty their waste water/toilet tanks???? – won’t be paying for any of that.
Hopefully, you have CCTV? If they’ve damaged fencing, the Police should be taking other action, not simply serving notice to proceed, but of course they won’t, I suspect, because that would be too difficult!
Why cancel? Simply play, and work together to pepper the vans with well placed cricket balls.