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11

Aug 2021

Community
Community

Council exploring ways to keep travellers off Knaresborough park

Published: 11 Aug 2021, 16:26 BST

by Connor Creaghan

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Volunteers from Knaresborough Wombles had planned to help out. But police deemed it a health hazard due to human excrement and warned the group to stay away this morning.

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Harrogate Borough Council is exploring ways to prevent travellers from using Hay-a-Park as a professional clean up operation gets underway.

Volunteers from Knaresborough Wombles had planned to help out. But police deemed it a health hazard due to human excrement and warned the group to stay away this morning.

So Harrogate Borough Council has stepped in and sent in staff to survey the site and clear it in a safe manner. It's unclear at this stage how long the process will take.

The council had served the travellers with an eviction notice on August 3 but the group only left yesterday.

We sent a reporter down to Hay-a-Park today who found piles of rubbish across the area, a trashed outbuilding and a strong smell of faeces.



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Once the council workers restore the park, officers will look into ways to prevent illegal encampments in the future.

Cllr Andy Bell, who serves the Scriven ward on Knaresborough Town Council and set up Knaresborough Wombles, told the Stray Ferret:

"In terms of what happens in the next few days we will need professionals with proper equipment to come and sanitise the site.
"Then we will have to look at ways to secure that site and maybe try to find a specific area for the travellers to stay.
"Next year we are looking at how we can handle the situation in a different way."


A Harrogate Borough Council spokesman said:

"Now that the travellers have moved on we are in the process of clearing the site. We are also exploring other options to prevent further illegal encampments in the future."


A police spokesman said:

“This is a council matter. We attended to tape off the area to protect the public prior to the council attending to deal with it.”


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rubbish left on Knaresborough rugby field