Campaigners have handed a 1,200-name petition to Basildon Council opposing plans for a new travellers’ site in Laindon.
Residents have also written scores of objection letters against the application for 12 caravan pitches on land opposite Laindon Park Primary School, in Church Road.
Land opposite a
primary school..? FFS!
Neighbours say the petition and letters show the strength of feeling against the site, which would become home to some families facing eviction from Dale Farm, in Crays Hill.
However, the travellers say the backlash proves how difficult it is for them to find anywhere legal to settle, because any plans always face such stiff opposition.
No, I think if you applied to settle on
Gruinard, there’d be no objections at all…
Residents claim the land, which is designated as a local wildlife site because of reptile and invertebrate colonies, is not suitable for development.
However, many are also vehemently opposed to a traveller site so close to their homes.
Cliff Hammans, 60, from Church Road, said: “We don’t want another Dale Farm here.
“If they moved on, there is no way they would limit it to 12 pitches. It would just grow and the council couldn’t do anything.
“If this goes ahead it will devalue our homes like it has in Crays Hill, and that is not even grounds for objecting to the application.”
Ironically, the progressives’ attempts to ‘level the playing field’ by bending over backwards to ensure that gypsies and travellers are seen as a protected minority, to counteract the supposed hostility they faced from the settled community, has only succeeded in making them even
more unpopular.
"Residents claim the land, which is designated as a local wildlife site because of reptile and invertebrate colonies, is not suitable for development" ...
ReplyDeleteIn which case the residents need specialist advice as to how they should go about getting the site designated an SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest) .. and they need to do that urgently ..
@Captain Haddock: I suspect if the 'reptile and invertebrate colonies' were anything other than a few frogs (such as great crested newts for example) then the locals would already have played that card.
ReplyDeleteOf course you might be able to import a few newts from somewhere else and 'find' them on the site, and report that fact to the council. That should put a bit of a block on proceedings for a while at least.
If you want to stop a pikey site, ensure that a Labour minister lives next door to you. Tricky to arrange, but 100% effective in getting rid of them within 48 hours.
ReplyDelete"ensure that a Labour minister lives next door to you"-Rob
ReplyDelete"reptile and invertebrate colonies"
Check.
@ Jim ..
ReplyDeleteThat's a logical supposition Jim, presumably based on the belief that "local wildlife site" status cannot be overturned .. it can ..
LNR (Local Nature Reserve) status is more binding ..
And SSSI status is much more substantial, legally speaking ..
I'd agree that the species involved would probably determine the status which would be granted .. Breeding Great Crested Newts or Natterjack Toads, would almost certainly give residents a "nap hand" ..
Comments are off, I notice...
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No, I think if you applied to settle on Gruinard, there’d be no objections at all…
ReplyDeleteBut only because anthrax spores can't talk.
Ok I should say that I don't particularly like pikeys-having been to school with some gammon speaking Shelta.
ReplyDeleteThe words 'pig ignorant' and 'cunts' spring to mind. Worse than Geordies, in my book.
But what worries me about these sorts of cases (and our local town tried to build a travellers site a couple of years back) is the invective of the anti's and nimbys.
Some of could be lifted word for word from Adolf's poison pen.
Infact in our local campaign some of the sentences were almost exact translations of some of the nastier nazi mouthings, as I showed at the time.
The only thing missing was the word 'Untermensch'.
Whoever was responsible for building up Dale Farm has effectively pissed on the traveller's chips for the foreseeable....
ReplyDeleteTravellers piss on their own chips...they always have done. Painting them as victims and giving them special status utterly failed because they didn't play the game and act like it.
ReplyDeleteArrogance...like truth...will out.
When it comes to pikeys, the "shoot, shovel and shut up" dynamic becomes salient.They're like those Islamowankers down at Grosvener Square the other day: only the most condign punishment will shift them. With that bunch of howling monkeys, of course, a half-track-towed quadmount .50 cal would have been my crowd-dispersal mechanism of choice.
ReplyDelete"If you want to stop a pikey site, ensure that a Labour minister lives next door to you."
ReplyDeleteDidn't one set up a few hundred yards from one of the Labour cabinet during their reign? Can't remember which one, though...
"Comments are off, I notice..."
Yes, says a lot, doesn't it!
Why don't they just travel? they seem to want to pitch camp for years and years and not travel at all. Indeed why don't they travel back to Ireland and bloody well stay there?
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