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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
They install utilities... hrmm... I would suspect 'steal' is a better word given that only utilities companies can actually install them.
Needs a change in the law if the police can't stop it. Ridiculous the suggestion that they can go onto land they don't own and tarmac it like this. I refuse to believe it's legal for them to tap the electricity and water supplies like this. If it is legal it's crazy.
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Interesting that you seem to think you know the right thing for everyone.
Being travellers surely they can travel. I would have thought that if they can afford to come into an area with heavy machinery, attack the countryside and steal utilities they can afford to rent pitches where they are available.
If there are none available where they want to be they'll have to do what the rest of us do if we can't live where we want to and go somewhere else. It's not society's job to accommodate the need for 'clans' to live apart and again it doesn't excuse their actions.
One rule for one and one for others isn't acceptable, but it's what you are suggesting, that society shape itself around their wants and desires. Doesn't work that way. This ignoring that what they are trying to do is quite simply illegal.
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Thing is, IF pitches are in sensible places it gives the police and neighbourhoods
more power to move them on. Ignoring things and doing nothing just causes more aggravation and expense. Surely it is better to have them paying their way like the rest of society. Privately run sites tend to stick to the clan & satellite families. Council run sites take all & sundry with waiting times far in excess of those on the housing list due to the extreme shortage of pitches nationally.