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Aug 2021
Council exploring ways to keep travellers off Knaresborough park
Harrogate Borough Council is exploring ways to prevent travellers from using Hay-a-Park as a professional clean up operation gets underway.
Volunteers from Knaresborough Wombles had planned to help out. But police deemed it a health hazard due to human excrement and warned the group to stay away this morning.
So Harrogate Borough Council has stepped in and sent in staff to survey the site and clear it in a safe manner. It's unclear at this stage how long the process will take.
The council had served the travellers with an eviction notice on August 3 but the group only left yesterday.
We sent a reporter down to Hay-a-Park today who found piles of rubbish across the area, a trashed outbuilding and a strong smell of faeces.
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Once the council workers restore the park, officers will look into ways to prevent illegal encampments in the future.
Cllr Andy Bell, who serves the Scriven ward on Knaresborough Town Council and set up Knaresborough Wombles, told the Stray Ferret:
A Harrogate Borough Council spokesman said:
A police spokesman said:
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