Overview
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Reported encampments
Information on known encampments.
Brooklands Community Park - update 27 August
At the Court Hearing on 26 August 2025 at 3:00pm, the County Court at Kingston Upon Thames granted the council its Injunction Application. The Court ordered that all occupants vacate and remove all their belongings and structures from the land on the east side of Sopwith Drive Weybridge at Brooklands Community Park by 12:00pm noon on 4 September 2025. The occupants are also forbidden from re-entering the site and re-establishing any encampment site anywhere on Brooklands Community Park. The Order will remain in force until any further order of the court.
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.