Worried families living in leafy millionaires' village fear travellers could expand their 'illegal' encampment after a landowner put two extra plots of field up for sale.
Locals living in the rural idyll of Bramley, near Guildford, Surrey, were rocked over the weekend after a group appeared to bulldoze their way into a field and turn it into a caravan site, in a brazen land-grab.
As revealed by the Daily Mail, the group arrived late on Friday evening with industrial machinery to rip up the rural oasis, hacking down hedgerows and creating a new access before laying hard-standing and fencing.
The actions were taken without planning permission having been granted and came shortly after the half-an-acre plot of prime agricultural land, dubbed 'The Loseley', was sold at auction online.
It's sparked a furious war between villagers and the local council, with residents branding the travellers' 'military operation' to convert the land as a 'mockery' of stringent planning rules designed to protect the area's prized greenbelt.
