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Brooklands Community Park - update 15 August

Our legal team have been progressing the application for an injunction on the site. This will now be heard at Kingston Court on 26 August 2025. The injunction will seek to remove the rough sleepers and their belongings from the site, and to prevent them re-entering the site. We will provide a further update following the hearing. 


Nomadic life

Nomadic life is not illegal, and Gypsy, Roma, travellers have a basic right to this way of life. It's the aim of Elmbridge Borough Council to ensure all its residents, whether living in settled or transitory communities, are treated equally and with respect. We also recognise that this has to be balanced with the rights of the general public to enjoy private and public land.  

We are obliged to manage unauthorised encampments within the borough on council-owned land. It is not always possible to stop all access and from time to time unauthorised encampments are established.

For more information about unauthorised encampments, see Surrey Police: Unauthorised encampments and you. 

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