Travellers set up illegal camp in another Coventry suburb

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Travellers have set up an illegal camp on fields in another Coventry suburb.


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They have moved on to an area of grassland near The Shrubberies, Cannon Park, close to the Kenilworth Road.

Coventry City Council have issued the families with notice they must leave by today or face legal action.

The ultimatum comes after another travellers’ camp was set up at Charterhouse Fields, off London Road. Both groups were previously camped in Bedworth and ordered to move.

The Telegraph reported yesterday travellers’ pleas to stay as a pregnant woman from Charterhouse Fields is due to have her birth induced today. Both groups have been ordered to leave the city.

The half a dozen families staying at The Shrubberies site have vowed to leave and spoke to the Telegraph about the abuse they face wherever they go.

“We’re not doing anything wrong,” Ann Doherty, 18, said.

“I can understand it’s the council’s field but we’re not causing any damage and there’s nowhere for us to go.

“It’s really nice here but the only problem is we are too far from the shops and people won’t give us water. We asked to use the showers at the gym near here but they wouldn’t let us.

“We get racist abuse wherever we go. People look at us like we’re aliens or something. We’re human beings after-all.”

The group now plan to drive to Birmingham and look to set up camp there having previously been living in Margaret Avenue, Bedworth.

Warwickshire County Council obtained a court order allowing them to use bailiffs to evict them last week but the group left voluntarily just hours before they were due to be forced off.

The travellers then split between camps at The Shrubberies and Charterhouse Fields.

Ann told how she had received most of her secondary school education in Sheffield but has regularly moved on all her life.

“We’re going to Birmingham next. We haven’t got any plans we’ll just find somewhere when we get there,” she said.

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Travellers given 8am deadline to leave Coventry fields

A group of travellers who have moved onto two Coventry fields have until 8am this morning to leave, before they are forced off.

Just over a week ago around a dozen caravans turned up at Charterhouse fields in Whitley and the Shrubberies just off the Kenilworth Road.

Charterhouse has been at the centre of a row between Blue Coat School and local residents, with 60 per cent of it now leased by the school as part of a deal to allow it to become an academy.

That section of land is not the site occupied by the travellers.

The city council says it has already served the travellers with a court order, warning them they will take action if they don’t leave the two patches of land.

If they fail to leave by 8am this morning they will talk again to their legal teams and also the local police who say they are prepared to remove the travellers.

The council has also confirmed a heavily pregnant woman staying at Charterhouse has been admitted to Coventry University Hospital but it is understood she is yet to give birth.

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Legal action starts to get travellers off Coventry fields

The council in Coventry is about to take action after a group of travellers ignored a deadline to leave two local fields.

Just over a week ago around a dozen caravans turned up at Charterhouse fields in Whitley and the Shrubberies just off the Kenilworth Road.

Charterhouse has been at the centre of a row between Blue Coat School and local residents, with 60 per cent of it now leased by the school as part of a deal to allow it to become an academy.

That section of land is not the site occupied by the travellers.

The city council had already served the travellers with a court order, warning them they would take action if they didn’t leave the two patches of land before 8am this morning.

They are still there so they are going to a judge to grant an order where they and the police can force them off the sites.

The council has also confirmed a heavily pregnant woman staying at Charterhouse has been admitted to Coventry University Hospital but it is understood she is yet to give birth.

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“It’s really nice here but the only problem is we are too far from the shops and people won’t give us water. We asked to use the showers at the gym near here but they wouldn’t let us."