A GROUP of travellers who pitched up on a field in Parkeston are expected to have moved on by the middle of next week.

Five tents and vehicles arrived on the Jubilee Field end of Garland Road on Thursday.

The group was served with a Direction to Leave notice by the Essex Countywide Traveller Unit.

The court date to enforce the direction is on Monday and then a summons will be served on Wednesday.

The group left Dovercourt’s Low Road, which is owned by Tendring Council , and arrived at the Garland Road site owned by Ramsey and Parkeston Parish Council later in the day.

A Direction to Leave notice was served on the travellers, giving them 24 hours for them to vacate the land or further action would be taken through a court summons, which is now in the pipeline.

The same group had previously set up camp on a public car park in Promenade Way, Brightlingsea.

Paul Honeywood, Tendring Council's cabinet member for housing, said that the same group has taken over three publically-owned sites in Tendring in just over a week.

“Tendring Council is operating in the only way it can through legal processes to have them removed on each and every publically-owned site they occupy,” he added