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Travellers arrive at Woodgate Valley on a sweltering June 30, 2025(Image: In Touch With Bartley Green)<\/p>\nA convoy of caravans have set up camp at Woodgate Valley leaving locals frustratedTravellers arrive at Woodgate Valley on a sweltering June 30, 2025(Image: In Touch With Bartley Green)<\/p>\n
A convoy of caravans have set up camp at a popular nature reserve, leaving locals frustrated.<\/p>\n
Around 20 vehicles arrived at Woodgate Valley County Park on Monday afternoon (June 30), just weeks after their last incursion.<\/p>\n
Bartley Green Councillors Kerry Brewer and Bruce Lines called the situation “frustrating” and they would be seeking to initiate eviction proceedings.<\/p>\n
Read More: Dates and locations of Birmingham City Council’s tip trucks over the next five days<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The last group of travellers vacated the park on June 12.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Get the latest BirminghamLive news direct to your inbox<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Birmingham<\/a> City Council previously said about Travellers pitching up on council land: “Birmingham City Council<\/a> is committed to actively protecting its land and will take steps to recover this land where unauthorised encampments encroach upon it.<\/p>\n \u201cThe council has useable transit sites and plots for use by the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community \u2013 which is in line with Government policy.<\/p>\n “Details of the Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Assessment carried out and updated in 2019 can be found on our website.”<\/p>\n Woodgate Valley Country Park is a 450-acre site designated local nature reserve in the centre of Bartley Green and Quinton.<\/p>\n It consists of meadows, woodlands, small ponds with the Bournbrook running through the park.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A convoy of caravans have set up camp at Woodgate Valley leaving locals frustratedTravellers arrive at Woodgate Valley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,984,748,393,4884,1265,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-227106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city-council","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-travellers","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114773392603718447","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227106","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=227106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}