Travellers leave old Oak Park site
Travellers who flouted an injunction to set up camp at the old Oak Park site in Walsall have been moved on.
A group of six caravans turned up at the Lichfield Road site in Walsall Wood on Tuesday evening, ignoring an injunction preventing them from doing so.
Walsall Council confirmed that the group had left the site on Wednesday evening after being served injunction paperwork.
Councillor Anthony Harris, who represents the Walsall Wood area, said: "I am pleased that the group has been moved on.
"We will now have to visit the site and see if any damage has been caused or rubbish left.
"It is good that the council acted quickly to move the group on but it is a pain to have to keep doing this all over the borough and I maintain that something needs to be done."
A year ago Walsall Council secured an injunction providing greater powers to boot travellers off 12 sites in the borough but since then it has seen other plots targeted more frequently with large encampments of more than 40 caravans doing the rounds at Aldridge Airport, Barr Beacon and Walsall Arboretum among other sites.
