From the Herts and Essex Observer
A STAND-off ended this evening (Thursday) as Travellers who had set up camp in the car park of Bishop's Stortford Football Club left.
Vehicles towing three caravans arrived at the club's ProKit UK stadium on the Woodside industrial estate off Dunmow Road yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon.
When two of the Travellers' vehicles left the site, the gates to the car park were locked.
When the Travellers returned and were denied access, they blocked the entrance with their vehicles and refused to move.
Initially, the Travellers said that they would be gone by midday today (Thursday).
The car park is private land leased by the Skrill South football club from club chairman Luigi del Basso.
A spokeswoman for Hertfordshire police said that they were alerted at 7.40pm yesterday to "five or six" caravans in the car park.
"The club is exploring legal remedies for them to be removed," she said.
"We are monitoring the situation. The area has been included in our regular patrols but unless criminality takes place we won't take action."
The Mitre Suite at the club is playing host this evening to the reconvened meeting of East Herts District Council's development management committee, which is delivering its verdict on the Bishop's Stortford North Consortium of developers' plans for 2,200 homes on land known as ASRs (Areas of Special Restraint) 1 to 4 inside the A120 bypass.
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