FOI release

Unauthorised Encampments

Case reference FOI2026/00954

Received 2 May 2026

Published 21 May 2026

Last amended 21 May 2026

Request

This is a request for information using the FOI act for the following information:

For each of the following years respectively 2026-27 to date, 2025-26, 2024-25, 2023-24, 2022-23 and 2021-22

Would it be possible to tell me:

1. How many unauthorised traveller encampments were found on public or private land in your local authority area?

2. How many unauthorised traveller encampments on public and private land have you cleared from the local authority area?

3. What were the full eviction costs to your council for all cleared unauthorised traveller encampments?

4. How many authorised traveller pitches are there currently in your local authority area - as of May 2026?

Please find the answers to your queries below:

This is a request for information using the FOI act for the following information:

For each of the following years respectively 2026-27 to date, 2025-26, 2024-25, 2023-24, 2022-23 and 2021-22

Would it be possible to tell me:

1. How many unauthorised traveller encampments were found on public or private land in your local authority area?

Please see the attached PDF document.

2. How many unauthorised traveller encampments on public and private land have you cleared from the local authority area?

Please see the attached PDF document.

3. What were the full eviction costs to your council for all cleared unauthorised traveller encampments?

We do not hold this information.

4. How many authorised traveller pitches are there currently in your local authority area - as of May 2026?

None.

Yours sincerely,

FOI Team

Guildford Borough Council

This is Guildford Council's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.