Gypsies and travellers

Below is a list of unauthorised encampments in the Cheshire and Warrington area. These are shown by Council area.

Each unauthorised encampment is given a name based on where it was first reported. The exact location of the encampment may be somewhere nearby. Similarly, there may be a slightly different number of caravans reported when the group first arrive. There is a procedure for dealing with encampments and the information is updated as this progresses. If you have checked the list below and want to tell us about a new encampment, please use our reporting form.

Cheshire East

Crewe Hall Hotel, Weston Road, Crewe

• Arrived: 1 December 2022
• Current status: Officer to contact landowner to offer advice and support
• Notes: Privately owned land; 4 caravans
• Information updated: 1 December 2022, 4.05pm

Morrisons, Dunwoody Way, Crewe

• Arrived: 1 December 2022
• Current status: Landowner to instruct bailiffs
• Notes: Privately owned land; 4 caravans
• Information updated: 1 December 2022, 3.49pm

B&Q, Weston Road, Crewe

• Arrived: 30 November 2022
• Current status: Officer to contact landowner to offer advice and support
• Notes: Privately owned land; 1 caravan
• Information updated: 1 December 2022, 8.24am

Badcocks Lane, Spurstow

• Arrived: 14 September 2022
• Current status: Referred to Planning
• Notes: Privately owned land; 1 caravan
• Information updated: 27 September 2022, 10.44am

Cheshire West and Chester

North Road, Ellesmere Port

• Arrived: 30 November 2022
• Current status: Officer to contact landowner to offer advice and support
• Notes: Privately owned land; 15 caravans
• Information updated: 1 December 2022, 8.23am

Chester Road car park, Whitby, Ellesmere Port

• Arrived: 20 November 2022
• Current status: Group leaving by end of Monday 5 December
• Notes: Council owned land; 3 caravans. In the interest of public hygiene portable toilets have been provided. This has no impact on the progress of the legal process
• Information updated: 2 December 2022, 10.10am

Warrington

Orange Grove, Fearnhead

• Arrived: 1 December 2022
• Current status: Officer to attend as soon as possible
• Notes: Council owned land; 1 caravan
• Information updated: 1 December 2022, 3.52pm

Rutherford House, Birchwood

• Arrived: 29 November 2022
• Current status: Notice served to group directing them to leave by 5pm, Friday 2 December
• Notes: Council owned land; 3 caravans
• Information updated: 1 December 2022, 12.15pm

Jubilee Hub overspill car park, Orford

• Arrived: 24 November 2022
• Current status: Group temporarily permitted to remain
• Notes: Council owned land; 9 caravans
• Information updated: 30 November 2022, 3.55pm