Council 'should stop cutting' meadow grass in bid to stop travellers
Travellers have moved on from a nature reserve, with the clean up operation now underway.
Walsall Council's leisure chief Ian Shires confirmed that an unauthorised encampment on Bentley Haye, Short Heath, had been moved on.
The councillor also said he believes the council should stop cutting the grass on the site in the hope it would reduce the opportunity for travellers to use it.
He said: "Travellers have left their unauthorised encampment on Bentley Haye off Bentley Lane in Short Heath.
"The council has secured the site and a clean up is set to begin.
"Councillors have suggested that the council should stop cutting the grass on the field and allow it to return to a meadow.
"It would be more environmentally friendly and would allow the access point off Bentley Lane to be permanently sealed off removing the threat of unauthorised encampments for good on this particular site."
