Eviction of travellers

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Could you provide information on the number of times you have moved travellers on, how long it takes, as well as the costs of moving them on.

 

Could you provide this in table form for the past three financial years, or up until the most recent date that you hold records to. If it is possible, I would like this part of the response in table form.

 

I would like the date you were alerted to each incident in the first row.

 

Could you then provide corresponding rows for:

  • length of time it took to move the travellers on
  • cost in legal fees – to obtain and deliver directions to leave to travellers, and to obtain court date and summons to evict them
  • cost of booking bailiffs and paying bailiffs to remove travellers
  • cost of clean up after removal
  • cost of target hardening/ improving defences to prevent travellers returning
  • any additional costs

 

Please see the table below. A blank entry indicates NIL costs.

 

FOI questions
1 length of time it took to move the travellers on (days)
2 cost in legal fees – to obtain and deliver directions to leave to travellers, and to obtain court date and summons to evict them
3 cost of booking bailiffs and paying bailiffs to remove travellers
4 cost of clean up after removal
5 cost of target hardening/ improving defences to prevent travellers returning
6 any additional costs
FOI questions – see list above
Date alerted

Possession order

 

1

 

2

£

3

£

4

£

5

£

6

£
08/06/2015 11/12/2015 186 935
09/05/2016 28/05/2016 19 1035
16/02/2017 30/03/2017 42 1215
28/10/2016 06/04/2017 160 990
16/03/2017 28/03/2017 12 1255
18/10/2015 04/11/2015 17 860 388
10/02/2015 24/04/2015 73 880
01/06/2016 30/06/2016 29 755
03/01/2017 17/01/2017 14 624
17/01/2017 14/02/2017 28 785
30/03/2016 29/04/2016 30 990
09/08/2016 13/03/2017 216 1145
15/01/2015 14/04/2015 89 1209
09/04/2015 05/05/2015 26 735 288
16/07/2015 17/07/2015 1 110
27/07/2016 11/08/2017 380 760
16/02/2017 28/02/2017 12 815
20/07/2015 11/08/2015 22 735 931.15
11/04/2015 26/05/2015 45 845 33.54
01/06/2014 25/11/2014 177 485
clear up only 528
clear up only 902.37
clear up only 295.5
clear up only 450

 

 

 

 

 

Could you also total the costs for each year and give the average number of time it took to move travellers on each year.

Please see the table below, again with reference to the FOI questions raised above.

FOI question 14/15 15/16 16/17 Total
1
2 £3,670 £5,264 £8,119 £17,053
3 £0 £110 £0 £110
4 £0 £3,037.52 £745.50 £3,783
5 £0 £33.54 £0 £34
6 £0 £0 £0 £0
Total £3,670.00 £8,445.06 £8,864.50 £20,979.56

We can confirm that the average number of days taken to move travellers on over the three years was 78.9 days.