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Travellers park up at Howe Bridge Leisure Centre, Atherton
Around 10 caravans have set up on the overspill car park behind Howe Bridge Leisure Centre car park in South Atherton.
Caravans and trucks are visible on the field, as well as several cars.
The group have not parked their caravans on the main car park itself, confining themselves to the field overspill behind it, which is usually closed off by a gate.
(Image: Dan Dougherty)
Travellers have rights, as do the owners of land where unauthorised encampments take place.
They are protected from discrimination under the Race Relations Act 1976 and the Human Rights Act 1998, alongside all ethnic groups with distinct cultures, languages or values.
Now that they are there, he procedure is the council will come to conduct a welfare check on the group.
They will also ask them to move on from the premises.
The council have legal powers to deal with encampments if the group do not move when requested to do so, but the process can take up to a week.
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