Written by Last Easter, travellers armed with hardcore setup camp in Blackmore on greenbelt land, and subsequent attempts to remove them have failed, including an appeal to the High Court.
There has been a recent hearing at local level where information has emerged that one of the travellers owns a property in Melton Mowbray, and the other traveller claiming he has nowhere else to go actually rents a property in another part of the country.
It’s about time the powers that be did the right thing for the local taxpayers and these ‘travellers’ should be forcibly evicted.
Our greenbelt land is under enough of a threat through housing pressure as it is, and small villages that no-one seems to care about deserve protection against illegal developments.
The area of Brentwood is already having to find 14 sites for travellers and I trust these will be brownfield sites and will be monitored and enforced to stop another Crays Hill travesty from happening.
I am sure that if the current illegal site was in the backyard of the High Court Judge that said they could stay, his verdict would have been different.
True travellers should be given help to change their lifestyle, but these parasites in Blackmore are trying to use the guise of a traveller to bypass planning laws and destroy yet more of our precious greenbelt land.
When will our laws protect those that pay the taxes?
With so many people seeming to have taken “snow days” over the last week or so, because they couldn’t get to work, businesses are now going to have to battle with people who insist they shouldn’t have to take a days holiday and should still be paid. I have to say that if a company allows you to take holiday they are still being generous. Businesses need their employees in order to function so if without warning half of them don’t turn up, it puts the company in a difficult position, and puts a lot of pressure on those who have turned up.
One of the main problems I have with websites that use locations, is that there is no definitive county list.
We are still in the midst of our unprecedented cold snap, and people all over the country are taking ‘snow days’ off from work and we are being told by the motoring organisations, the police and politicians, not to make a journey unless it is essential.
Of course, a lot of people can’t get into work because public transport shuts down. I can’t count the amount of people I’ve heard who have been delayed by broken down trains during this cold snap. If trains are delayed and buses don’t run, it makes people less inclined to go to work. If you can’t rely on your transport home, why risk going in?