Injunction to stop traveller site extended again

A High Court injunction ordered over an unauthorised traveller development close to a nuclear weapons site has been extended.

West Berkshire Council was first granted the order that restricts development and more people living on the site south of Reading Road, close to the Atomic Weapons Establishment's (AWE) Aldermaston site, in December.

The authority said that was extended on Tuesday by Justice Duncan Atkinson KC until a substantive hearing can take place sometime after 2 March "due to the complexity of the evidence presented."

Previously, Heather Codling, the council's deputy leader, said it was "committed to taking proportionate but firm action where planning control is being breached."