Council examines office damage after travellers go
BBCA council says it is assessing repairs to its headquarters after an encampment of travellers moved out of a large car park on the site.
Teignbridge District Council said an "unauthorised encampment" arrived at Forde House in Newton Abbot on Saturday and left on Monday evening.
The council said its teams had cleared waste left on the site and would assess the damage to the building's entrance and ground-floor windows which had been broken.
The car park would be fully open on Wednesday to all staff and visitors, it added.
A spokesperson for the council said: "We followed the same legal process as we do with all unauthorised encampments and notified the courts yesterday [Monday] that we planned to begin eviction proceedings.
"However, the visitors left of their own accord before these court proceedings were enacted."
They said repairs to the building would be arranged as soon as possible.
The council decided in July 2025 to spend more than £70,000 on measures to stop unauthorised encampments on council-owned green spaces while recognising there were no transit sites or temporary stopping points for travellers in Devon.
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