Travellers leave Walton site 'clean and with no issues' - Surrey

From Get Surrey

Travellers who set up around eight caravans on charity-owned land in Walton left the site "clean and with no issues" less than 24 hours after arriving.

The vehicles turned up on the land owned by the Walton Charity, at the junction of Severn Road and Rydens Road in Walton, at around 9.30pm last Thursday (July 11).

The site is next door to Sherwood House care home, also run by the charity, and a spokesman said they left at around 5.30pm the following day.

Nigel Lucas, director of residential services at Walton Charity, said they had been keeping an eye on what was going on and looking at what options were available to them.

Speaking last Friday, he said: "The number of caravans doesn't seem to be growing. They were noticed at about 9.30pm on Thursday by people in the care home.

"The Travellers have been no trouble to us though, there haven't been any difficulties or disturbance."

Mr Lucas later added that the group had co-operated and left the site at around 5.30pm.

Elmbridge Borough Council, which leases the land as public open space, said it had been working with the charity to "repossess the land".