Thursday, April 13, 2006
Traveller's Camp
Warning - travellers leave 50 tonnes of rubbish.
A large group of travellers who set up camp in Hebburn have eventually moved on, and after making assurances to Environmental Health Officers that the site would be left clean and tidy, the Council was required to send in a team to remove over 50 tonnes of refuse! This included 17 gas bottles, 19 tonnes of timber, 40 tonnes of rubble and 15 tonnes of conifer trees.
The travellers have now moved to a disused petroleum site near the Royal Quays in North Shields where they are facing a forced eviction. A similar group arrived in South Shields town centre almost a year ago and made camp on the old site of the allotments and pigeon lofts on Station Road (now earmarked as part of the new Asda development). It would be prudent to take measures now to seal off this site to avoid any further additional costs to the Borough, word travels fast within this type of community and they are likely to know of the existence of the Station Road site.
Let's face it South Shields Police are unlikely to wish to be involved with any negotiations to move travellers on, this might not be seen to be "balancing the budget" or helping to improve any key performance indicators!
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