{"id":163897,"date":"2025-06-06T20:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T20:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/163897\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T20:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T20:58:12","slug":"travellers-pitch-up-on-popular-family-park-near-birmingham-rugby-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/163897\/","title":{"rendered":"Travellers pitch up on popular family park near Birmingham rugby club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The park is owned by Birmingham City Council<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_076A5699JPG.jpg\" alt=\"Traveller caravans on Billesley Common today (June 6)\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Caravans on Billesley Common today (June 6)(Image: Nick Wilkinson\/Birmingham Live)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Travellers have moved on to a popular family park near a <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> rugby club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">More than a dozen caravans were spotted on <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/billesley-and-hall-green\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Billesley Common<\/a> today, June 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A dogwalker told BirminghamLive the Travellers had moved on to the green space, next door to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/moseley\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Moseley<\/a> Rugby Club, earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <\/strong><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/escaped-birmingham-bull-rescued-breaking-31806912\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Escaped Birmingham bull &#8216;enjoying city break&#8217; safe and well as details of rescue mission released<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He said he was taking his dog for a walk last night when more caravans &#8220;turned up&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A large convoy of caravans were also spotted at the park, owned by <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/birmingham-city-council\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham City Council<\/a>, in May last year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1749243491_866_0_076A5699JPG.jpg\" alt=\"Traveller caravans on Billesley Common today (June 6)\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Traveller caravans on Billesley Common today (June 6)(Image: Nick Wilkinson\/Birmingham Live)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">We have contacted the authority for comment on the new encampments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=67ec6fc9-65d2-4b0c-b55e-ee73660ce693&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object]Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Don&#8217;t miss the biggest and breaking stories by signing up to the BirminghamLive newsletter here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The council <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/travellers-move-back-popular-family-31768031\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">recently said <\/a>it has useable transit sites &#8211; in line with government policy &#8211; for the traveller community to use after a small group of caravans set up camp on nearby Swanshurst Park earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_076A5701JPG.jpg\" alt=\"Traveller caravans on Billesley Common today (June 6)\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Traveller caravans on Billesley Common today (June 6)(Image: Nick Wilkinson\/Birmingham Live)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Their arrival came just 24 hours after members of a volunteer group dedicated to maintaining the park finished picking up rubbish after the last group left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The Friends of Swanshurst Park spent two days tidying up and amassed an estimated 30 bags full of trash which was taken by a council bin lorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The park is owned by Birmingham City CouncilCaravans on Billesley Common today (June 6)(Image: Nick Wilkinson\/Birmingham Live) Travellers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[25375,855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-163897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-billesley-and-hall-green","9":"tag-birmingham","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114638428924048771","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}