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Letter: Why aren’t travellers given parking tickets?
Regarding the council discussions for traveller transit site locations, there are a number of points I would like to raise.
One of the arguments I have heard is that the travellers need a transit site because they have children attending local schools. If that is the case and they are ‘local’ travellers, then they need a permanent caravan park and not a transit site.
Secondly, what is the criteria for selecting a suitable location for the transit site? On this subject, everyone takes the NIMBY attitude – myself included – so it would seem to me that the only logical place for the site is with one of the existing sites, either Oxney Road or Norwood Lane.
I believe that the existing travellers there have said they also do not want the transit site there. One thing I am sure of is that no sites would be proposed in Castor or Longthorpe, home of Peterborough’s more influential residents and Marco Cereste.
Thirdly (and finally), why are no travellers ever prosecuted for illegal encampments?
When they park on council-run car parks I have never once known the travellers to receive parking fines. What is the loophole which the travellers exploit? Either the council and/or the police need to take action or all car park charges must be scrapped, with issued fines reimbursed.
Additionally, why are no travellers fined for the clear-up of their waste or for damage to property?
In general, there appears to be a severe injustice towards non-travellers (i.e. home dwellers). House-dwelling members of the public cannot even take household waste to be recycled in a van without applying for a permit.
FLETTON RESIDENT
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