{"id":675604,"date":"2026-01-05T14:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/675604\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T14:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:55:09","slug":"southmead-residents-shocked-over-van-dweller-site-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/675604\/","title":{"rendered":"Southmead residents shocked over van-dweller site plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another resident, Kevan Hill, said the site was too close to a new housing estate and a community centre for vulnerable adults.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve had less than a week to object, there are plenty more brownfield sites they can use, why don&#8217;t they use that?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were told there would be money set aside for a recreation area for new houses [next door], but nothing was built.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Bristol City Council spokesperson said: &#8220;The group occupying the land at Lanercost Road have been part of an unauthorised encampment for some time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The Gypsy Roma Traveller team has\u202fmet with\u202fthe group on\u202fa number of\u202foccasions\u202fto\u202fcarry out welfare checks and discuss alternative options.\u202f<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are in the process of preparing a case to be heard in court, and we hope to be granted a possession order for the land.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another resident, Kevan Hill, said the site was too close to a new housing estate and a community&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-675604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115843073649525809","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675604","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=675604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}