The Barony Sports complex in Nantwich is open again today after it closed temporarily yesterday due to an illegal encampment on the park.
Staff at the complex announced earlier yesterday that they had had to close because of the travellers encampment, which consisted of around six caravans.
Police attended the encampment, which is one of the first to access Barony Park since the completion of the perimeter fence around the park.
A spokesperson for Cheshire East said: “The Barony Park Sports Complex was temporarily closed due to an illegal encampment, which included six caravans.
“Police attended the site and the group had vacated by 2.30pm. The sports complex was reopened at just after 3.30pm this afternoon.”
At the time of the fence being erected in 2020, Cheshire East bosses said the fence was not designed “primarily” as a barrier to prevent illegal encampments, but more to enhance the look of the park.
Water Cannon needed?….
WM. Why do you say things that simply aren’t true? I just checked Cheshire East’s website and it lists a whole policy to accommodate travellers, including six permanent sites within a very few miles of Nantwich, so it’s not only *not* an “inconvenient truth”, it’s not even a truth. As I said, you are making excuses for illegal activities by people who choose to take, not contribute.
It’s not an excuse it’s an inconvenient truth. Whilst I agree with the sentiments that these actions are wrong, to provide balance, so is the Council’s for not providing a site which they are legally entitled to do. Once they do we can all get our pitchforks out!
They should be treated with the same contempt they show us, and everything we represent.
Even animals have rights, which is about right.
Watch out retailers what they do is send the children into a shop say a charity shop with a fake note buy say a £1 item and hope they take the fake and recieve ream money in the exchange
The WM. They absolutely don’t have the right to pitch up wherever they like, illegally, and deprive ratepayers of facilities they’ve paid for, and that’s without getting into any intimidation, nuisance and criminality. There are sites they could use, but choose not to. I’m so tired of people making excuses for anti-social and illegal behaviour.
If it’s the same lot that have been evicted from the Barony, they are now on the George’s playing field in Crewe, but of course, silly me, i forgot, they have the ‘right’ to invade anybody’s land, public or private, whenever it suits them, and like they were with us yesterday, be aggressive and abusive because we walked past their caravans on a public footpath with our grandson, just thought i’d mention it, that’s all…..
Why is this happening year on year. Travellers chose to travel, not wanting to be in same place all the time and then just park where they want. Why should our Council provide a travellers park and put more expense onto our already extortionate council tax rates. It isn’t a free society, well not for the majority of people.
Because like it or not they do have rights, legally – and the council have knowingly failed to provide another alternative which is their legal duty.
Why do we treat these so-called travellers so leniently? They reject all the rules and norms we have to adhere to, and all we are concerned about are their “rights”.
The 2020 comment is the usual load of drivel from CEC.
I thought the fence was put because it means the only way for caravans to enter the park is to cause damage to either the fence or the bollards and if they damage anything they can be evicted quicker. If so then it seems to have worked. It used to take a week or so to get a court order to evict them.