A FLEMING WAY traveller camp is due to move on within days, police say.

Around ten caravans moved on to the disused car park beside Fleming Way late on Friday.

The camp included a number of vehicles registered in the Republic of Ireland. Accompanying the caravans were work vans boasting livery that suggested they were from a cleaning services firm.

Yesterday, Wiltshire Police said that the travellers were planning to move within days.

A spokesman said that officers had been patrolling the area since the weekend.

He said: “Wiltshire Police is aware of the travellers on the old Carfax Street health centre car park and they have indicated that they will move on in the next day or so.

“We are liaising with Swindon Borough Council. Between the Council and ourselves, we will continue to monitor the situation.”

A spokesman for Swindon Borough Council said: “Officers will visit the travellers and continue to monitor the situation.”

One local businesswoman, who did not wish to be named, suggested that the caravans had been able to access the site because it had been left unused.

“I blame the council,” she said. “They have all this spare ground – you’d have thought they’d do something with it.”

On the Advertiser website, one user said that regeneration group Forward Swindon could improve the site.

Website user “FLOGGITLAD” wrote: “Forward Swindon should use this as a chance to get the area cleaned up. It’s a total eyesore.”

The car park behind the old NHS walk-in centre on Carfax Street has already been earmarked for development as part of the £300m Kimmerfields project.

The 10-year project will see the re-development of 20-acre space between the town centre and the railway station. It will include the creation of a new bus station.

Last month, Swindon Borough Council ordered a group of travellers to move from Westcott Recreation Ground on Wootton Bassett Road.

Council officers threatened the camp, which consisted of a dozen caravans, with a Section 62 notice – ordering the unauthorised encampment to move on. The order prevents the group from returning within three months of it being made.