Council issues update after reports of traveller encampment in Chesterfield park
The council has issued an update after travellers have been seen leaving an encampment in Loundsley Green and travelling towards Danesmoor.
Chesterfield Borough Council has confirmed that travellers have left the encampment at Loundsley Green Park off Pennine Way in Chesterfield.
It has been reported that the caravans were in Danesmoor but did not set up a camp there and moved elsewhere.
The council said the authority was ‘not aware that they have relocated to anywhere else in the borough’.
A spokesperson for Chesterfield Borough Council said: “We can confirm that the travellers from the unauthorised encampment at Loundsley Green have now left the site.
“We take all reports of illegal encampments seriously and work closely with our partners including Derbyshire Constabulary to share intelligence and take appropriate and proportionate enforcement action to seek a resolution as quickly as possible."
Residents first reported that travellers arrived at Loundsley Green Park off Pennine Way in the evening of Tuesday, August 4.
Derbyshire police officers attended and spoken to the caravan owners, who have explained that they would be moving on in the next few days.
Chesterfield Borough Council has been working with Derbyshire police to resolve the situation.
A spokesperson for Derbyshire police said officers believe that travellers left Loundsley Green Park and headed to Danesmoor but ‘weren’t able to set up there’.
The force said they did not have any further details or comment to make.