BRADFORD Council has started the legal process to remove Travellers from a well-known Bradford site.
Travellers reportedly moved on to the car park at Richard Dunn Sports Centre on Sunday morning.
Since then, more vans have accumulated at the site in the Odsal area of the city.
The person who reported this to the T&A claimed the Travellers had got in via the slip road from Manchester Road to Odsal Top.
Travellers have been seen moving onto the Richard Dunn site on multiple occasions over recent years since the closure of the sports centre.
A spokesperson for Bradford Council said: "Our officers are dealing with the encampment in the usual way, with the start of the legal process to seek vacant possession of the site."
The Grade II listed building, named after the Bradford-born boxer who was famed for fighting Muhammad Ali, was due to be knocked down at the end of 2021.
However, a surprise decision by Historic England to list the building left the future of the site uncertain.
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