A Council looks set to do a complete u-turn over plans to allow a group of travellers to stay at an illegal site at Warrenby, near Redcar.

Earlier this week, officers from Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council were recommending that its executive, which meets on Tuesday, accepts a plan to allow the travellers to stay at the site on a renewable agreement basis, despite a series of objections from local people.

But that recommendation was overturned at an overview and scrutiny meeting yesterday afternoon.

Members of the Coatham and Warrenby communities went to Eston Town Hall to hand in petitions against the proposals and ward councillors for Coatham and Dormanstown expressed their concerns.

As a result, the committee decided to recommend that the executive agrees to make the travellers leave the site at the end of their contract - which runs out in the middle of next month.

Councillor Dave McLuckie, lead member for community safety said: "There were very strong words in opposition to the original plan by ward members and extremely strong opinions put to us in a well-ordered fashion by residents and business people from the area."