Bid to make ‘unlawful’ Travellers site in Lancashire permanent

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1. Unfortunately this post seems to have been hit with the most restrictive possible participation limit. Good luck to anyone trying to post a comment.

2. Hopefully the locals can put a stop to it… the only time i’ll side with locals trying to stop developments.

3. AHH yes, the best solution to illegal activity, just make it legal.

4. >“A laurel or other suitable evergreen hedging will be planted to screen the frontage and provide increased biodiversity. Bat and bird boxes will be provided at six locations as will two log/rubble Hibernacula adjacent to the track for any local newt populations.

   >“Tree planting will provide shelter and nesting opportunities for the several species of birds. Separation distances will be maintained at a minimum of six metres with all plots having the benefit of mains services.”

   Beyond satire.

5. If I lived near there I’d be very concerned about the crime levels and general safety

6. Anyone who has ever had the luxury of having to live near one of these sites knows the misery that comes with it.

7. Had this exact thing happen by us.

   They made an illegal camp site on green belt, just 1 family, stayed there for a long time (cant remember exactly but 5+ years).

   Put in planning for 12 caravan spots, with basically a tiny house next to each one. Tons of complaints and they finally rejected it. People had no issue with them stating there, it was blatantly obviously it was the extra 11 where the issue arose.

   2 years later and tons of appeals, with no further local input they overturned and approved it.

   You know what pisses me off more, if i even attempted to move my family onto green belt on a small acre with a few animals that shit would be shut down rapid. Thats all a lot of people want, these had that, took the piss and took it too far and they were still granted it.

8. There are two sites near me and unfortunately they uphold most of the stereotypes. A lot of the kids also went to the school my partner used to work at (until they get removed in their teens – funnily enough, they’re the only group that gets to avoid fines and trouble for it, for some reason…) and they were all obnoxious little cunts.

   The government should do more outreach to try and bring them into the fold of modern British society imo. It’s absurd that they’re just left to their own devices and given a free pass to break the law willy nilly just because the Police don’t want to have to deal with them.

9. So they own the land? That seems to be the case anyway.

   Then why not? Its their land, its their buisness.

10. Not supporting the shite these people leave behind (but I’m sure not all of them)…. but just as a point of interest… why is it unlawful to be a traveler? Or have a place to park/camp? Perhaps Iammissing the nuance.

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