New temporary Hull site for travellers would benefit all say councillors
TRAVELLERS could get a new temporary site in Hull.
The move has been suggested by councillors after a series of illegal camps across the city over the summer.
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MOVING ON? Travellers in Priory Road, Hull.
At one site in Burnham Road in west Hull, travellers set up camps on three separate occasions, despite efforts by the city council and the police to move them on.
Now, backbench scrutiny councillors have called for the creation of a new temporary site to be reviewed.
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Councillor Dean Kirk said: "We know the four existing sites in Hull are full and they have permanent pitches anyway.
"What we need is a temporary site where travellers can stay for five or six weeks before moving on.
"The current situation doesn't do anyone any favours."
He said establishing a recognised temporary site would benefit everyone.
Cllr Kirk said: "What we do now is time-consuming and costly for the council, it leaves our residents frustrated and the travellers are forced to move from one site to the next."
Jane Price, an area director at the council, said one option could be to explore the possibility of creating a temporary site on land off Priory Road, where a group of travellers are currently based.
She said: "There doesn't appear to be any serious issues with them at the moment and it's not near any housing."
She said lessons had been learned from this summer's series of incidents involving traveller camps in the city.
She said: "We have had a policy for removing illegal Gypsy and traveller camps since 2002 but it has become increasingly apparent it is time for a review because it has not been working effectively with this core group of travellers moving around different sites.
"Most of the time we had to start the procedure to remove them from scratch, even though we were removing them from the same site on some occasions.
"That ended up being quite time-consuming and delayed our response to moving them on.
"It was also very costly for the council to deal with."
Councillor John Abbott said officials needed to realise the anger residents faced with delays to the legal process involved in clearing illegal camp sites. He said: "Waiting ten days for a case to get to court isn't good enough."
Comments
by manuelization
Wednesday, October 24 2012, 7:54PM
“McLafferty
All the time you k.r.a.u.t.s keep persecuting us for nothing more than than our ethnicity, and in so doing, pushing us to the peripherals of society, you WILL ALWAYS fund our lifestyle. What decent Gypsy would ever pay into a system that has continually persecuted us for over 500 years? I know NOT ONE. Until your racist and bigoted attitudes change towards us then we'll pay some taxes, until then, it is YOUR job to bring the taxes in, not ours!
DavyPSunday,
"As a regular walker on priory road I have just been for a walk and observed one young male with his penis out urinating shouting 'look at my c**k!
You are a disgusting filthy minded liar! if this did happen it WOULD have been you dirty scumbag gorjas, because your kind is the cause of all fith and crime. You are a disgusting perverted paedophile and you need a traveller to smack that filthy mouth in of yours!
As for the rest of you no-good nazi pigs you can all go to hell”
by qualitychap
Monday, October 15 2012, 1:03PM
“how ironic,Mr parnaby and the east riding councillors,have said the will fight tooth and nail,for this so called green belt,and now it looks like a permanent gypsy site could be located there.
I'm sure cottingham has a gypsy site up near skidby.
this land off priory rd on hulls western border,is i.m.o,probably some of the most expensive land for a top housing development,because of its location.
any builder knows,people would be queuing up to buy good houses there,if tastefully developed,it would enhance the local area and economy.
what would you like councillors another gypsy site or top housing development ?”
by Mally_Hull
Monday, October 15 2012, 12:03PM
“So the Councils solution to prevent Gypsies from using land illegally it to make it legal? That solves that problem then. Ostriches anyone?”
by buornfree
Monday, October 15 2012, 7:50AM
“temporary site will lead to permanent site”
by DavyP
Sunday, October 14 2012, 7:04PM
“The sign ain't been nicked.....it's literally been dragged out of the ground, laying in the field concrete base attached!!! That's the respect they show for the Council lol perhaps the Council should repay that respect.....or lack of!!”
by GCtheDJ
Sunday, October 14 2012, 3:43PM
“I too have driven past the said field today. I reckon that, once it has all been cleaned, it'll be somewhere nice to take my dog for a walk. Wonder if I'll get done for trespassing, as it says you will on the sign? (actually, I think someone's nicked the sign.)”
by Hull47
Sunday, October 14 2012, 3:26PM
“Drove past Priory Road earlier, the usual mess left behind in an otherwise pristine green field, oh and I spotted an abandoned Childs slide, very good condition, seems odd they should have left that behind, I wonder who that originally belonged too?”
by DavyP
Sunday, October 14 2012, 2:52PM
“Well if they have gone that it indeed good news......unfortunately this does not mean that this field is now not up for consideration, it will still be on the councils radar and I would urge residents to have your say! Silence will get us nowhere, we still do not want a temporary travellers site on our doorstep which is sure to impact on the value of our properties!”
by kipper
Sunday, October 14 2012, 2:08PM
“Well just a quick update I've just passed the site it appears that THEY HAVE gone ....have they moved next to Jane Price like the article say's it would be of benifit to ALL !!!.
But Seriously the rubbish left behind is discussing & is now getting cleaned up by a 90 year old Farmer who surely can do without the hassle.
I would urge the council to take tough approach to these people we do not want to encourage them to the area with a softly softly attitude we should have zero tolerance.”
by DavyP
Sunday, October 14 2012, 1:18PM
“As a regular walker on priory road I have just been for a walk and observed one young male with his penis out urinating shouting 'look at my c**k! Hang on isn't indecent exposure illegal!!!! My wife was verbally abused by travellers 2 weeks ago on priory road and now won't go walking alone despite being able to do so for many years! This is a despicable suggestion by Hull City Council and simply a way for them to save money........who is going to clean up the human faeces that litters the public bridle path, presumably that will fall to East Riding Council despite it being the fault of Hull! They should back their tax paying residents and not the freeloaders who pay nothing!”