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The rovers return
Date published: 20 October 2009
DOZENS of caravans have descended on B&Q car park as travellers set up camp for the fourth time this year.
Travellers also used the land at Mumps as their home in January, April and June. Talks were in place to put barriers up at the car park following the travellers’ last visit which left the owners with a huge clean-up bill.
Slabs of Tarmac, concrete, soil and shrubs were left behind on the car park which is still owned by B&Q.
B&Q is responsible for bailiff costs to remove travellers from the private land as well as any resulting clean-up operation. Camps have also been set up at Haggate in Middleton Road, St Anne’s School in Royton and Oldham Edge over the last 12 months.
Comments
Perhaps they should be barricaded in, and not allowed to leave until they clean the site thoroughly and take all of their belongings with them.
This is good news the dog that bit Oldham solicitor's Mr Comyn Platt's leg and ruined his suit may be back in town, time for some ruff justice.
anyone else with no tax or insurance would have their vehicles seized
'Talks were in place...' It would have been better had barriers been there instead. Still ne'er mind eh! In 4 or 5 days our omnipotent lord & master, Alcock The Incessant, MEMBER for evasion & inactivity will stage a lightning raid on the encampment, to be photographed, waving his victorious piece of paper, atop a huge mountain of dumped tarmac. “Oldham council takes it's responsibility toward fly tipping seriously,” he will intone, whilst totting up the costs he will pass on to us poor sods.
It's about time that the law made this behaviour illegal. The Council could make it physically impossible for open spaces to be accessible. Car registration numbers make it easy for the authorities to identify those who are responsible for anti-social behaviour. The police could check on the road tax and car insurance validity of vehicles. Why has nobody got the courage to deal with this issue?
Have Your Say
This is getting ridicules when will OMBC and B&Q sort this site out once and for all we can’t keep spending tax payers money like this. Why not clamp their cars till they pay up
By Barros @ 20/10/2009 12:57:02