 A group of bailiffs will ensure the families leave the site |
A group of 200 travellers, who have been camped on land in north Warwickshire for two-and-a-half years, have been told they have to leave by the new year. The 21 families on the site in Bulkington have built roads and footpaths on the site but had not secured planning permission to do so.
They have also ignored a series of eviction orders from Nuneaton and Bedworth Council.
The council was forced to take the case to the High Court which has decided to give the families until 12 January to leave the site otherwise they will be forcibly removed.
If the families remain a firm of bailiffs will be employed to remove them.
The travellers had claimed that a lack of suitable sites left them no alternative but to build on the land.
Councillor Bill Hancox, the council's chairman of the planning applications committee, said: "The council will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the eviction of the occupiers of the site is carried out with due regard to welfare needs."
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