A traveller family kicked off land in Oxford more than 30 times in just two years could be banned from setting up camp anywhere within the city limits.

Oxford City Council has now initiated court proceeding against the Loveridges to issue the family with antisocial behaviour orders, after repeatedly evicting them.

This week the family were forced to move from their latest illegal campsite at Grenoble Road, opposite the Kassam Stadium in Blackbird Leys.

The Oxford Mail has learned that, in the past two years alone, the family of six and their two caravans have been evicted 32 times from Blackbird Leys, Littlemore and Cowley -- costing more than £9,000 in clean-up costs alone.

They have been moved off county council land at least 13 times, city council land seven times, South Oxfordshire District Council land twice and private land three times.

A city council spokesman said: "The Crime and Nuisance Action Team (CANAcT) are working on means to resolve the situation with the family and we are exploring the use of antisocial behaviour orders to prohibit the behaviour of the travelling community when necessary."

Leys County Councillor Val Smith said: "Council officers have been working very hard to find a solution but I'm absolutely staggered it has taken so long. It's ridiculous.

"No-one has managed to correct this situation and every time the family comes back and causes the same problems it seems there is nothing we can do about it."

No family member wanted to comment on the plans when they were visited by the Oxford Mail.

Gary Brewer, of the county council gypsy and traveller services, said: "It can be frustrating when we keep moving (the Loveridges) on but for the majority of time it's fine. We have to be aware travellers have a culture.

"Local authorities and housing authorities have got to find suitable accommodation, which doesn't mean bricks and mortar but a piece of land."

Andrew Ryder, a spokesman for the Gypsy and Traveller Law Reform Coalition, said: "Government research shows there is a national shortage of travellers sites.

"If that shortage was addressed there would be a reduction of roadside campsites.

"Families living on the side of the road often have very poor access to public services and are often unable to become part of the community."

County council gypsy and traveller liaison officers are attempting to set up 'transit' campsites in the county, to which travellers camped at the roadside could immediately be evicted.