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Another traveller illegal traveller site, poor neighbours.

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eazybee Tue 22-Sept-26 09:25:31

I have seen school playgrounds and parks occupied by Travellers, and the amount, and type, of rubbish they leave behind is disgusting. Martin Clunes and his wife have been overruled in their fight against a permanent site next to their smallholding in another part of Dorset, the South,

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Sago Tue 22-Sept-26 09:19:16

Smileless2012

It would take days to lay tarmac, even longer if the area was the size of a field confused.

Sadly this is not the case, they are quick and clever it is apparently like a military operation.

www.thesun.co.uk/news/39235858/travellers-tarmac-field-bulldozers-diggers-blitz/

There are plenty of examples.

A favourite tactic is to operate over a bank holiday weekend when councils are closed.

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Peacelilydilly Tue 22-Sept-26 09:05:03

One rule for them another rule for the rest of us. Human rights again angry

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Smileless2012 Tue 22-Sept-26 09:00:44

It would take days to lay tarmac, even longer if the area was the size of a field confused.

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Sago Tue 22-Sept-26 08:55:18

Another illegal traveller site has appeared in Worcestershire.

The council have put a stop notice in place but it has been ignored, the area has been laid to tarmac and is home to 10 caravans.

Fortunately where I live there are no areas of land that could be accessed in this way.

Our daughter and SIL had a listed house surrounded by their land and some who nobody was sure who it belonged to.
They dreaded coming home from holiday to find their home surrounded by caravans.

They applied for some planning and had to spend thousands of pounds on bat surveys, get English Heritage approval yet someone could have driven in and laid a field to tarmac and parked a dozen caravans overnight.

It is literally one rule for us and another for the travellers.

When are the Police and local councils going to put a stop to this?

It’s so sad for people whose homes are affected.

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