Update on Buckley Common Traveller camp

Update via Buckley Town Council (fb) The Town Council has today received further information from Flintshire County Council regarding the Travellers on Buckley Common, which states:
“I can now inform you that the Travellers on Buckley Common have now been served a Section 77 Direction Notice.

This Notice is part of the legal process we must follow before we apply to the Courts for their removal.

It gives them 24 hours notice to leave which they are required to do before 2pm on Thursday 20th July. If they do not leave then the Council will apply to the Court”.

Flintshire County Council has served an eviction notice on a group of travellers who set up camp on Buckley Common.

The council took steps to move the travellers from the Common after around 20 caravans arrived on Tuesday afternoon, it is believed they had been previously camped in Ewloe and Queensferry.

Council officers say they have carried out a ‘welfare assessment’ on the camp and were in contact with North Wales Police who are undertaking regular patrols of the area.

The council also say they have instructed Streetscene to drop off bin bags to the camp.

The eviction notice served today gives the group a deadline of 2pm on Thursday, July 20 to leave the Common.