A group of travellers who set up an illegal caravan site over the bank holiday weekend near Tuxford have been told by council officers to leave the land.
On Friday, April 18, the group worked through the night to construct the unlawful development with tarmacadam roads, fences, and pitches created on land near the A1 without planning permission.
A large number of caravans and mobile homes have also been parked up on the site.
Legal action has now been taken, with Newark and Sherwood District Council serving an enforcement notice on the landowners and occupiers yesterday(April 24).
The notice means the site must be vacated and returned to its original state by May 30.
The enforcement notice means the occupiers must ‘Cease the use of the land as a caravan site and remove all caravans and mobile homes from the land’, and, in line with the minimum period legally required, will take effect 28 days after it was served.
In the case of failure to comply with an enforcement notice, the council can take direct action to enter the land in order to remedy the breach of planning control — and it is a criminal offence to contravene the notice.
