Travellers move to playing fields as group told to leave park just 3 miles away
Around half-a-dozen caravans moved on to land off Cawdor Street.
It is not clear if the Travellers are those who were told to move off Crompton Lodges, the permanent Gypsy and Traveller Site in Moses Gate in July.
Last week Travellers evicted from their permanent home in Moses Gate went gone full circle and returned to fields in Breightmet – the first place they went to after being forced out.
They have since moved on.
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The Travellers moved on to the Farnworth park on Sunday evening.
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Farnworth councillor, Paul Sanders responded to concerned residents in a social media post: “Local residents’ messages the Farnworth and Farnworth and Kearsley yesterday evening about the arrival of travellers.
“We immediately informed the relevant council officers [and] departments who have confirmed that proceedings have started in order to move the travellers on and return the park to normal.”
Bolton Council and Greater Manchester Police applied for a closure order of the site in Moses Gate earlier this year.
And last month people were ordered to leave the site where some of them had lived their whole lives.
Farnworth North Councillor Nadeem Ayub said: “We have started the eviction process with serving the Section 77, as this is an unauthorised encampment on Cawdor Street.”
Some left the site and went to live elsewhere but a large number have vowed to stay in Bolton.
In the intervening time they have been to other sites in the area in Breightmet, Darcy Lever and Little Lever.
The Travellers had previously insisted they would stay in Bolton and planned to keep their children in school.
They are also appealing the eviction notice.
If Travellers are on council land, the local authority will carry out a welfare check before starting the legal eviction process.
Concerns have previously been raised that Travellers will keep moving from area to area until the eviction notice expires.
Source – INDIA TV
