Roads blocked after travellers set up camp on Wolverhampton car park
Travellers set up home near to Wolverhampton Science Park yesterday, resulting in the police being called due to them blocking a busy road during rush hour.
Around 20 caravans settled down on the park-and-ride site on Shaw Road, next to the science park, at around 4pm yesterday.
As the travellers gathered around the locked car park, which is council property and often used as matchday parking for Wolves games, some blocked traffic from passing through nearby Showell Road.
Council spokesman Tim Clark said:"We were alerted to reports that around 20 caravans had begun to assemble on roads around the park-and-ride car park off Bushbury Lane.
"Council officers immediately attended the scene and observed some of the vehicles blocking the surrounding roads.
"The police were also in attendance and they requested we allowed the vehicles onto the car park as a temporary measure to ensure roads were not blocked as we approached the rush hour.
"We agreed to the police request to alleviate potential serious traffic issues. The travellers have indicated that they do not intend to remain in this location for long.
"The police will be supervising them closely and will ask them to move on as soon as possible.
"The council has provided rubbish sacks and have urged the travellers to leave the site as they found it."
Last year around 15 caravans were parked on the same car park for four days.
