Travellers have pitched up in a car park owned by a gym.
A large number of caravans and other vehicles were seen parked up just off Wilford Lane, West Bridgford, on the afternoon of Monday, March 29.
The car park belongs to Roko gym and health club and is private land.
The Housing Act 2004 states all local authorities have to assess the accommodation needs of travellers.
Councils must also provide a strategy as to how the needs will be met.
In recent years local authorities, particularly in Mansfield, have been opening consultations as to where best to open sites so travellers can live on a more permanent basis.
According to reports this year, a new law will ban travellers from setting up camp on private land, and those who break the law could be fined up to £2,500 and jailed for up to three months.
The change would make intentional trespass a criminal offence.
Currently private landowners face court battles that can take days or weeks before getting an order allowing them to remove travellers from their sites because trespass is currently a civil offence.
But the change in the law would mean encampments could be moved immediately, either by agreement or by seizure and arrest.
