
“The number of unauthorised Gypsy and traveller sites is on the rise, with developments often carried out over Bank Holiday weekends.
Since April, sites in Hertfordshire, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and elsewhere have been transformed, prompting legal battles and local dismay”..
Dismay,aye reckon so.
“Cliff Codona, who founded and chairs the National Travellers’ Action Group, says the planning system is like a “big dagger in their back” for travellers, leaving them no option but to “break the law”.
When Codona moved on to what has become his family’s caravan site, just outside Elm, near Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, in 2020, he did not have planning permission.
“We pulled down on a Friday evening when we knew the council was all closed up and we just took it for granted that this is how things get done,” he recalls.
“As soon as they know you’re a Gypsy,” he says, a planning application is “stopped – dead in its tracks”.
It is a fucking shame.
There must be an answer to this?
What could it be?
Nominated by : Unkle Terry



