Travellers
 

Obviously Dale Farm is in the news at the moment, but I've come home to find that our village is now the preferred site for a traveller settlement of 30 caravans.

Irrespective of views of the travelling community, the major concern is the impact this will have on the price of our property. The settlement would be some 800 yards up the road from our estate. We're frantically trying to pay the mortgage off quickly in any case, as it is our only way to move to a bigger house, but this is now a massive concern.

I read an article that stated something about 'private land owners' withdrew their offers of land after too many complaints from local residents - I didn't know that was how the council provisions land for travellers, by renting it?! I thought it would be provided on council land?!

The news in the local public house is that the land 'proposed' in our village - a disused farm, is already owned by a promenant member of the travelling community. If that is the case, objections won't necessarily mean anything?!

Leave these guys alone.

The increase in crime and decrease in property value has nothing to do with them......:rolleyes:

Disagree. Whenever they grace our locale, things start disappearing, except that is, for the mountain of crud and filth that remains when they depart.

I think he was being sarcastic!

What has always amazed me is why HMRC doesn't seem to pay too much interest in people who don't pay tax but can spend tens or hundreds of thousands of pounds to buy land, not to mention carvans/static homes, cars, weddings....

Um. I should have noticed the :rolleyes:

Why are the Dale Farm ones still called 'Travellers' - they ain't travelled for 20 years or so.....:cool:

And some of their 'caravans' looked more like houses to me.

If they just called them people, we'd get all confused, and maybe think that they were people... like us
What happened to calling them tinkers. I thought travellers were more like drop-outs and alternative lifestylers

Got any scrap mate.

Is what I get at least 3 or 4 times a week.

What really gets me is as they are stood in the workshop they are looking round for stuff to take even though you have said no.

There is one that we deal with that gives a good price for batteries and cat's etc but the rest just seem want to steal stuff.

My 2p.

I know someone that has gone to a site with a transit tipper and stole thier scrap to see how they liked it

Many many years ago a family friend used to work on large civil engineering projects and one night a load of tools and equipment disappeared from the site he was on - a travellers site was a field away.

The travellers were approached and denied all knowledge despite the fact that items were clearly on view on their site. They suggested that for a finders fee they may be able to locate the missing items.

The old boy saw red (he has a very short fuse) and suggested that if the gear wasn't returned the brightest van on their site may become a pancake after he ran the Caterpillar over it ... they laughed.

Well he got back to site, fired up the D9 and spent the next couple of hours crossing the field (they don't move too quick).

The travellers didn't think he was up to it until he went through the fence, over a shed and then he squared up to the shiniest van.

Funnily enough at that point stuff reappeared and was returned, they didn't have any problems on site after that :D

Thats the way to do it :respekt:

Now that’s a better. It’s good to know that 2 communities from different back grounds are able to work together in harmony. I think we could all learn some lessons from this.

Please could you all help? I need as many signatures as possible to try and overturn the councils poor decision making and inconsistent policies.

Please sign our petition: http://www.petitiononline.co.uk/peti...n-whitley/3754

Thanks in advance.

Guys, this is an A8/S8 forum, not a political site. I'm not nailing any colours to the mast but would suggest that some folk might find some of these comments offensive.

Let's talk about the cars - there must be plenty of political forums to air these views.

Ok, I'm closing this thread, not because I have an objection to the content particularly, but more because its crossed over from a hot current affairs topic of Dales Farm into a similar, but different topic of a proposed site by a different council, and if I seperate them now, Ice_blues comments have no logical home, which I've no interest in censoring, and Im lacking the energy to fix that +++

To be clear, Daily Banter is a place to post pretty much anything, but for clarity, lets start new threads for new stuff, which I see this as.