TRAVELLERS at a Southampton park have been issued with a direction to leave a or risk being evicted by the courts.

Southampton City Council says it issued a "direction to leave" to the travellers at Mayfield Park on Friday. 

The unauthorised encampment, which includes about 23 caravans and cars, arrived at the site in Woolston last Monday. 

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But despite Active Nation, the charity which leases the park, serving a formal direction for them to leave on Thursday, they still remained. 

A spokesperson for the city council said: "If the occupants fail to leave, Southampton City Council will make an application to the court for the occupants to be evicted."

Anyone with information on anti-social behaviour or criminality is asked to contact the police on 101 or online.