Tuesday, 13 May 2014

Legal battle over Avonmouth travellers eviction - Bristol

From the Bristol Post

THE city council is locked in a legal battle to evict a family of Travellers from under a motorway flyover in Avonmouth.

The O’Brien family claim they have been thrown out of a council-run Travellers’ site less than a mile down the road after their temporary tenancy came to an end.

They have settled under the M5, near the Portway, and have taken out a high court injunction preventing an eviction - forcing city officials to deliver the family a portable toilet in the face of legal delays.

The case is due to be heard again in six weeks’ time and the Travellers have now applied for a permanent home through the council’s waiting list.

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