# Wirral families ordered to remove caravans and restore green belt plot

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/travellers-who-bulldozed-greenbelt-land-and-moved-in-caravans-in-bank-holiday-land-grab-are-ordered-to-rip-up-their-work/
- Published: 2026-10-23T23:25:31+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-23T23:48:02+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16233825/Travellers-bulldozed-greenbelt-land-moved-caravans-Bank-Holiday-land-grab-ordered-rip-work.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Culture, Travel, World

## Key points

- Wirral Council has ordered the unauthorised caravan site cleared.
- The 0.9-acre plot must be restored and reseeded.
- The council has not said when the work must be completed.

## Summary

Three Traveller families who moved caravans onto a 0.9-acre green belt plot in Irby, Merseyside, have been ordered by Wirral Council to end the residential use and remove their unauthorised development. The decision matters because it requires the land to be restored after excavation and other works carried out without planning permission.

The council issued a temporary stop notice on 28 August and announced on 21 October that it had served a formal enforcement notice. Its requirements include removing caravans, vehicles, buildings, machinery and materials, then ripping up the groundwork and reseeding the soil; the council has not given a timetable. The plot’s freehold had been advertised for £90,000 to £100,000, but the listing was later removed, and it is thought to have been legally bought by the families.

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