Legal action is being taken to move travellers, who have set up camp on a Guiseley car park – only days after caravans were moved off land behind Harry Ramsden’s.

Councillors have been inundated with complaints about the camp, which has been set up on a car park which was only recently opened in a bid to ease the town’s traffic problems.

About 24 vans have been parked up on the Netherfield Road car park – roughly the same number that have recently been moved on from the field near Harry Ramsden’s – although it is not clear if it is the same group.

Leeds City Council is applying for a court order to force the travellers to leave the site.

Councillor Graham Latty said: “It is the council’s own car park, but the council like anybody else has to get a court order to ask them to move on.

“We have applied for a hearing date which I am hoping will be swift, and then we will appear in court and apply for an order.

“People are quite rightly up in arms about this. People in Guiseley who want to find space to park were hoping this would open things up – and lo and behold it becomes unusable.”

There are now concerns among people in the town that the new car park could be damaged.

Coun Latty said: “These people have not always been known to be careful with the properties that they have been on and this is a brand new surface.

“I do have misgivings about what we will find when they are moved.”