Newark and Sherwood District Council teams investigate potential further works to an unlawful development in Weston

Investigations are being made into claims that more work has taken place at an unlawful Traveller site, despite a court injunction.

Newark and Sherwood District Council secured a court injunction in April after an agricultural field off Weston Road, Weston, was transformed over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend into a 40-pitch caravan site, with tarmacadam roads laid and hedges removed - without planning permission.

Residents from nearby Egmanton reported seeing bulldozers and excavators on the land and raised concerns about disruption and threatening behaviour from those on site.

An invalid planning application, missing key information, had been submitted the day before the council became aware of the unauthorised works.

The injunction, granted on April 25 and extended by a judge in May until December 2026, limits the number of caravans and motor homes on the site to 42 and requires a list of all residents to be provided to the court within two weeks of the order being made.

It does not require the removal of the site but stops any further works until an enforcement appeal is decided.

Forty enforcement notices were served on April 24, ordering the occupiers to cease using the land as a caravan site and remove all caravans and mobile homes.

An appeal was lodged shortly afterwards, preventing the notices from taking effect, and is due to be heard by the Planning Inspectorate in November.

In its latest update, issued yesterday (August 7), the council said: “While we are continuing to prepare our defence for the planning appeal that has been lodged with the Planning Inspectorate (scheduled for November 2025), the injunction and its terms remain in force.

“We have been made aware of potential further works on the site and our teams are investigating this.

“We are monitoring the site and would apply to the court to take appropriate action if the injunction was breached.”