A VILLAGE near Petersfield is celebrating after winning a long battle to remove travellers from a field in tthe South Downs National Park.

Four years ago two families moved on to the four-acre isolated and rural triangular-shaped piece of agricultural land known as Three Cornered Piece in Nyewood close to South Harting.

Owners Christopher Francis Searle and Jimmy Roy Searle were ordered to remove unauthorised works on the site by last month's deadline following enforcement and court action by Chichester District Council and the South Downs National Park Authority.

The land has now been cleared of a widened access track to the land, sewage treatment works, an area of hard-standing and a concrete base.

Previously, the owners had to comply with an August deadline to remove a mobile home on to the site.

For full story, see this week's Petersfield Herald.