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Lunar Scorpion said:
Aren't they allowed to have more than one?
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I can see why people might object, especially if they live close by but, on the whole, I would say it's better to provide somewhere official for them to stay then to have them pitching up on any suitable bit of empty field/park they can find.

Will no doubt make life a bit easier for plod as well.
 
shoes

shoes

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I agree than they should be given somewhere to pitch legally. I don't, however, think it should be in a township or anywhere near a residential area. Or Cotes Heath :P
 
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Hetairoi said:
No!

Why do travellers need permanent sites?
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So they can have somewhere to stay with half decent facilities like electric and water? So that they can settle for a while if they want their kids to attend school regularly (you'd be amazed how many actually want their kids to get a decent education and not be travellers)? So that they can avoid being tarred with the 'Pikey' brush associated with those that camp up illegally?

Maybe?
 
kyoto49

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proactive said:
So they can have somewhere to stay with half decent facilities like electric and water? So that they can settle for a while if they want their kids to attend school regularly (you'd be amazed how many actually want their kids to get a decent education and not be travellers)? So that they can avoid being tarred with the 'Pikey' brush associated with those that camp up illegally?

Maybe?
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So they aren't really travellers? They're just people who want to live in caravans but benefit from staying in the same place..............? Bit strange really.

They'll surely still be called p*****....
 
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kyoto49 said:
So they aren't really travellers? They're just people who want to live in caravans but benefit from staying in the same place..............? Bit strange really.
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Not really...

Just a case of accepting that they are human beings like the rest of us. They just live differently much of the time. Also it might give HMRC a chance of reclaiming some unpaid tax.
 
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Hetairoi said:
No!

Why do travellers need permanent sites?
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I dislike pikeys...sorry, travellers, as much as the next person, but it makes absolute sense to give them somewhere to travel to (I agree with your notion of travellers vs. people who just want to live in caravans) legally. It keeps them in one place, saves the police moving them on all the time, and when the inevitable crimewave occurs the police won't have to hunt for them.
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

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Next to the tip? They'll probably complain the smell is against their ooman rights and still pitch up wherever they feel. Remember the last lot on Martin Drive, didn't pick up the human excrement they left in the kids playground because nobody ever thanked them for doing so...
 
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Roland

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I run a business very close to the proposed site and if it goes ahead I will have to think very carefully about re-locating.

These people choose to live outside the law and leave a trail of theft and rubbish wherever they go and certain people still maintain it is their right to live the 'lifestyle' they choose.
 
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Gramaisc said:
Has the Glover Street site been a noted source of nefarious activities?
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Not that I know of but the Glover St site seems to be a permanent site (static caravans not tourers) with permanent residents rather than a permanent site for tourers where people can come and go thus having a transient population.
 
Gramaisc

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Roland said:
Not that I know of but the Glover St site seems to be a permanent site (static caravans not tourers) with permanent residents rather than a permanent site for tourers where people can come and go thus having a transient population.
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There are statics by the entrance, but there's at least two tourers visible in this and the overhead view would suggest there were others.
 
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