A group of travellers have packed up and left their illegal encampment next to a leisure centre.
Twenty caravans and families moved on from a field by Leatherhead Leisure Centre’s car park earlier today.
Their departure comes just a day after Mole Valley Council announced it was allowing them to stay for two weeks on compassionate grounds because the group included pregnant women and children.
PC John Hockley, co-chairman of the Surrey Gypsy and Traveller Communities Relations Forum, said he had heard the families had been barred from the centre as a result of their behaviour.
PC Hockley said: "It sounds like they were behaving in a way that was not reasonable and had been abusing leisure centre facilities."
PC Hockley said it was not known where the travellers had gone but he believed they were planning to go to a funeral was in Birmingham.
He said: "It’s been resolved. They were not local travellers."
Leatherhead Councillor Bridget Lewis-Carr said she knew of no problems since the travellers arrived last Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
Coun Lewis-Carr said: "It was very well hidden. There was a bonfire last night and lots of children running around."
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