Possible Traveller Sites in Warwickshire

[Lex]

It does defeat the purpose of travelling doesn't it.

[rebbonk]

It does to my mind Lex. No doubt some fantastic intellectual will tell us why we're wrong!

[Lex]

And that they're genuinely good people who wouldn't cause anyone any trouble at all?

[Lex]

If the authorities can't help, do it yourself!

http://www.rugbyadvertiser.co.uk/new...ugby-1-7146483

[Lex]

If the authorities can't help, do it yourself!

http://www.rugbyadvertiser.co.uk/new...ugby-1-7146483

Councils find it a struggle to cope with these people: http://www.nuneaton-news.co.uk/Times...ail/story.html

[rebbonk]

It's high time that councils started playing hardball with these freeloaders.

Confiscate a couple of caravans and I'll lay odds you never have any more trouble with them.

[Lex]

Ohh, no, you can't do things like that. That'll be harassment, against their human rights, and discriminatory to boot.

[rebbonk]

I think I see light at the end of the tunnel on this one. - Thanks to Mutti Merkel

[Lex]

Three points:

1) You are TRAVELLERS

2) Travellers seem to prefer illegal sites over than the pitches supplied for them.

3) If you want somewhere permanent, BUY A HOUSE

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/new...hould-10704031

[rebbonk]

Ref point 2, that's simply because the freeloading b*st*rds have to pay for 'legal' pitches.

[Lex]

I supose the houses will cause less damage than the travellers: http://www.nuneaton-news.co.uk/Ex-re...ail/story.html

[Lex]

Looks like Nuneaton's going to get a traveller site anyway, despite what the local population want: http://www.nuneaton-news.co.uk/Emerg...ail/story.html

Wonder what our county councillors will say if a site was proposed next door to their homes?

[rebbonk]

Ah, yet another 'consultation' that was a paper exercise to tick the right boxes.

Perhaps if people started demanding re-valuations of their properties because of such blights things might change? - I'll not hold my breath, things are loaded against the 'little man'. But one day, the little man will wreak one Hell of a revenge on those that have ignored him.

[Lex]

Travellers are back in Nuneaton: http://www.nuneaton-news.co.uk/Trave...ail/story.html

[rebbonk]

There's some expensive looking hardware there. The courts ought issue confiscation orders to defray the costs involved in removing them.

[Lex]

Looks like Leamington might get a gypsy site - on green belt!

http://www.warwickcourier.co.uk/news...gton-1-7305808

A friend of mine had a good suggestion yesterday - if these people want to travel around, build bothy-style accommodation for them, which they're entirely responsible for; maybe they'd eventually learn to keep them tidy.