From The Ely Weekly News
Travellers have vacated land at a village leisure centre – although there are rumours they could return.
Three caravans and numerous trucks had been illegally moved onto a corner of the sports fields at Littleport Leisure Centre.
After almost a month of being there, the Travellers finally left yesterday (March 14) morning.
Staff and users at the centre say they are relieved – but they have been warned that the Travellers could return.
Fencing is now being erected around the fields to try and prevent and further incidents.
A spokeswoman for the centre said: “Obviously we’re relieved they’ve gone now.
“They kept saying they would leave but they never did. They were here for almost a month in total.
“We’ve been told that they’ve moved towards Cambridge and that they might come back to Littleport and we’re hearing lots of rumours that they will come back.
“That’s why we’re putting up fencing and improving security to try and stop them if they do.”
Because the Travellers were on private land, it was down to the centre to move them on and not police or the district or parish council.
If they had refused to leave, the centre could have been forced to pay for bailiffs to physically move them off the site.
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