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Thursday 10th January 2013 SC (Forum)

[Forum] Travellers causing trouble in Bradley Stoke?

There is an increasing problem with travellers in the Bradley Stoke area. My son has told me on numerous occasions that they intimidate local children in the skate park and by the leisure centre. There are problems in and around Tesco’s. Are the Police aware of this and is there anything that can be done? If they were not so

Traveller vehicles park on a verge alongside Bradley Stoke Way.

Monday 16th June 2014 SH (Editor)

Travellers set up camp on verge alongside Bradley Stoke Way

A local councillor and scores of residents are demanding that action be taken to disperse a traveller encampment that has appeared on the side of a major road in Bradley Stoke. Four caravans and a number of other vehicles were this afternoon occupying part of the wide grass verge on the eastern side of Bradley Stoke Way, just south of

Unauthorised traveller encampment on a verge alongside Bradley Stoke Way.

Monday 23rd June 2014 SH (Editor)

Travellers begin second week of occupation

Travellers at an illegal encampment alongside Bradley Stoke Way have today begun their second week of occupation, despite being given 24 hours to leave the site on Tuesday last week. Four caravans and a number of other vehicles moved onto the roadside verge near Primrose Bridge last Monday morning. They were joined by a fifth caravan a few days later.

Monday 30th June 2014 SH (Editor)

Mayor takes action to prevent return of travellers

Bradley Stoke Town Council has confirmed that it has installed a number of wooden posts in an attempt to to prevent further access to a site alongside Bradley Way, where a group of travellers recently established an unauthorised encampment. The travellers left the site last Thursday (26th June) and the town council says it has “wasted no time” in taking action,

Illegal traveller encampment on Bradley Stoke Way. [Credit: Tim Bull]

Friday 22nd August 2014 SH (Editor)

Wooden posts prove no deterrent as travellers return to Bradley Stoke Way

A group of travellers with more than ten vehicles has set up camp on a grass verge alongside Bradley Stoke Way overnight (Thursday 21st/Friday 22nd August). The same strip of land, near Primrose Bridge (between Aldi and the Willow Brook Centre), was the site of a ten-day illegal traveller encampment in June. Three vehicles were seen at the site shortly

Boulders on a verge alongside Bradley Stoke Way.

Wednesday 3rd September 2014 SH (Editor)

Traveller encampment site defences strengthened with boulders

A set of boulders has today been placed on the access ramp leading to a grassed area alongside Bradley Stoke Way that was, on two recent occasions, used as the site of an illegal traveller encampment. The move comes two weeks after defences consisting of four wooden posts and two young trees, installed after the first traveller encampment in June,

Traveller vehicles in the car park of Kerry Group, Great Park Road, Bradley Stoke, Bristol.

Monday 23rd March 2015 SH (Editor)

Travellers set up camp in car park of Bradley Stoke business

Travellers have set up camp in the car park of a business in north Bradley Stoke. At least three caravans/motorhomes and associated vehicles are currently stationed in the car park of global food ingredients company Kerry Group at Equinox South, Great Park Road [map]. Local UKIP councillor and parliamentary candidate Ben Walker tweeted last night: “Disappointed that travellers have decided to