The latest incursion by travellers onto Birmingham parkland has sparked a call for a new fines system as a deterrent. Travellers, said to be some 30-caravan strong, moved onto Billesley Common, near to Birmingham Moseley Rugby Club, around eight weeks after a similar visit. The travellers and their caravans were said to have rolled onto the city park around 8pm on Wednesday, July 30. READ MORE: Around 30 traveller caravans set up camp at Birmingham beauty spot The visit followed similar recent camps at Kings Norton Park , off Pershore Road South, and at Swanshurst Park , on the Moseley Billesley border, in recent days. Mark Brown, who lives close to Billesley Common, raised concerns about the latest visit, saying travellers left a lot of waste to be cleared up, including human excrement, last time. He told BirminghamLive: “Last time they left a lot of rubbish. At the common there’s a woodland area for wildlife and a pond and that had rubbish and nappies in it. “They also left an old caravan. It was at the side of Moseley Rugby Club and someone set fire to it. “In June when they came, there was food left on the floor. They also dug a hole to use as a toilet.” The repeated visits led to one councillor calling for a new deterrent to prevent the park visits. Billesley councillor, Phil Davis (Lab), told BirminghamLive: “I have spoken to the cabinet member for parks, Coun Majid Mahmood and said we need to get a fine system introduced, like parking fines, where people go off a car park area and park they should be ticketed. “Why don’t we try that? The current system isn’t working. There are places they can use. But there does need to be another site. “The [current] locations have never been satisfactory. They are in and out of use. One site was trashed and couldn’t be used for some time. “Every authority should provide sites but they are left to this themselves. They need Government support to do this.” READ MORE: Travellers set up camp on family park ahead of sunny weekend He continued: “Leeds City Council had a system of informal sites at old industrial sites. That was quite a successful project in Leeds. “We need a carrot-and-stick approach. The carrot being other sites the council can provide. “And some system of fining people that go onto the parks.” Coun Davis said a legal process had been started to move the current group off Billesely Common. Residents reported a number of caravans leaving on Thursday night - and the rest were said to have gone on Friday morning. Get the latest BirminghamLive news direct to your inbox Coun Davis added: “What councillors want is quick action to move people on. Nobody is doing anything to create a deterrent. And I think a system of car parking fines could work. “There shouldn’t be a situation where people are going on to the parks. Some alternative provision, that needs to be enforced. “We need to protect the genuine traveller lifestyle. But rightly people are against the process being used in this way.” A spokeswoman for Birmingham City Council said: “The council is committed to actively protecting its land and will take steps to recover this land where unauthorised encampments encroach upon it.”