A community of people living in vans because they can’t afford Bristol’s spiralling rents have been told they have to move somewhere else by Tuesday, or face being forcibly evicted.
The group, who say they are all relatively new to van life, said they were initially told by the council to settle in Greenbank View, a road along the side of Greenbank Cemetery in Eastville, but now the council have told Bristol Live there are too many vans parked there and there has been an ‘increasing number’ of complaints.
Now, with the threat of eviction fast approaching, the van dwellers have launched a campaign to get the council to change their minds, and hundreds of Bristolians have signed a petition asking that they can be allowed to stay.
