A convoy of caravans have set up camp at Woodgate Valley leaving locals frustrated
Travellers arrive at Woodgate Valley on a sweltering June 30, 2025(Image: In Touch With Bartley Green)
A convoy of caravans have set up camp at a popular nature reserve, leaving locals frustrated.
Around 20 vehicles arrived at Woodgate Valley County Park on Monday afternoon (June 30), just weeks after their last incursion.
Bartley Green Councillors Kerry Brewer and Bruce Lines called the situation “frustrating” and they would be seeking to initiate eviction proceedings.
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The last group of travellers vacated the park on June 12.
The councillors also were worried about the risk of fires from appliances used out in the open as temperatures reached a sweltering 31C on Monday.
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Birmingham City Council previously said about Travellers pitching up on council land: “Birmingham City Council is committed to actively protecting its land and will take steps to recover this land where unauthorised encampments encroach upon it.
“The council has useable transit sites and plots for use by the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community – which is in line with Government policy.
“Details of the Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Assessment carried out and updated in 2019 can be found on our website.”
Woodgate Valley Country Park is a 450-acre site designated local nature reserve in the centre of Bartley Green and Quinton.
It consists of meadows, woodlands, small ponds with the Bournbrook running through the park.
The meadows also attract many kinds of butterflies and more than 90 species of birds have been recorded in the park, according to the council website.