Villagers form barricade to stop convoy of travellers

[GJH]

I realize the council had a legal obligation, but to spend 4 million pounds on 10 pitches which includes converting a grade 2 listed barn into a toilet block, that just doesn't make any economical sense, a neighboring council has managed to do it for 55,000 pounds, and as for travelers paying tax, not round here they dont.

Without providing full details of what the conversions involved and what alternatives there might have been the headline figures mean little. Has the council actually spent £4M or is that some figure somebody against the plan has published out of the air to mislead people? As of November last year, Cheshire East council was still only in negotiations to buy some land not actually build a site - and the history of no site in the council area to date indicates that land is at a premium so bound to be more expensive.

 

[Bobndebs McKay]

On the link road from Minser Lovell to Brize Norton there are some wide grass verges. Just after the road was opened, the Itinerants started turning up for around 2 - 3 weeks at a time, the usual rubbish, scrap,ponies etc on the side. Crime mysteriously went up, youths hanging around the local estate etc you can picture it. The council (I assume it was) then ploughed a single furrow arund 2 feet deep right along the side of the road. This immediately stopped any further Itinerant Incursions thankfully. That road is the route taken by the funeral corteges of the repatriated lads killed in Afghanistan, can you imagine any respect beng shown to them as they pass? I doubt it, and so action was taken. Big thumbs up from me!!

 

[Bobndebs McKay]

You can see the "White line" on the top side of the road verges, this is what the ploughed to stop the Itinerants towing their Vans etc onto there, if you look on the bottom side you can see gravel traps (White marks) this has been here for around 4 years now and never have they returned. Simple and effective.