Residents 'fed up' as travellers return to Hawthorn Avenue area of west Hull
RESIDENTS are complaining after a group of travellers moved near their homes, letting a horse loose in the street.
About ten caravans have parked in the road in Cecil Street, off Hawthorn Avenue in west Hull.
The area is currently undergoing a massive regeneration programme and the houses in Cecil Street have been boarded up, ready for demolition.
But private residents still live in houses near the road and say they have been chased by a loose horse belonging to the group.
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They also say generators used to power the caravans are keeping children awake at night.
One 37-year-old woman, who lives in nearby Cherry Garth, did not want to be named for fear of repercussions.
She said: "My son is in the back bedroom, so his window faces out onto the street.
"He can hear the generators humming and it is keeping him awake.
"I'm worried about him, because he has school work."
She also told the Mail the horse has been causing a problem for passers-by.
She said: "The travellers are keeping a horse at the back of our houses and the other day it chased me as I was walking by.
"It is scary leaving the house.
"All the residents are fed up and we just want them moved."
The people living in the caravans have several dogs, some of which are sleeping in portable kennels left out in the road.
It is not clear how the travellers gained access to the area, as Hull City Council put up a fence to stop cars driving down Cecil Street.
They put up the 8ft fence, which has a gate with a padlock, as the road has no street lights and the authority didn't think it was suitable for cars to drive down.
But the padlock has been broken off and the gate is now standing open.
One passer-by, who walks down Hawthorn Avenue to get to work, said: "They moved in a day after the council put the fence up.
"The fence was up on Monday and, by the Tuesday night, there had moved in.
"I don't understand why they'd want to park up in the middle of a derelict road when there are sites built specifically for them to live on.
"It cannot be healthy to live in those conditions – surrounded by building works, boarded-up houses and rubble."
A spokesman for Hull City Council said the travellers will be moved this weekend.
They said: "We have been made aware of the travellers and we are taking action to have them moved.
"It is expected they will be moved on over the weekend.
"After they have left, we will be securing the land."
The Mail approached people living in the caravans, but they declined to comment.
Comments
by stewie219
Wednesday, October 31 2012, 11:37PM
“don't worry about the travellers they are now sited on Birds eye , gipsyville , something else to keep the locals talking”
by cazmarelda
Monday, October 29 2012, 1:46AM
“I know I shouldn't but I keep laughing at the thought of Hawthorn Ave residents being chased by the horse...good luck to some of you with explaining that one to your drug and alcohol counsellors 'Honest, it was massive and it was chasing me, I thought it was going to bite me'...ha ha ha.”
by watchintelly
Sunday, October 28 2012, 11:14PM
“and STINK!”
by watchintelly
Sunday, October 28 2012, 11:12PM
“Their horses are scary wild psycho scum-LOL.”
by David_Nivea
Sunday, October 28 2012, 1:42PM
“The police won't do anything for fear of being outnumbered by associates of the caravan dwellers.
The council won't do anything dramatic as their hands are tied by the Human Rights Act and the awarding of ethnic minority status to Travellers, who in turn will move before any slow-motion legal process crawls to its expensively useless conclusion.
So, citizens of 'Ull - you've had it.”
by tosh1958
Sunday, October 28 2012, 10:34AM
“How long I wonder before the general population gets sick of these parasites and turns on them.”
by LordChez
Sunday, October 28 2012, 7:28AM
“An 'Attack Horse' that chases people, that is a new one for me!”
by tonybo
Saturday, October 27 2012, 10:04PM
“Through the dust and the smoke of this man made hell.
Walked a giant of a man the travelers knew well.
He grabbed a caravan in each hand
and thew them into the promised land'
Big John, Big John. Big.John. big John Prescott.”
by Prescotts_Cat
Saturday, October 27 2012, 9:27PM
“The council are wondering how they gained access?
Jesus {censored} Christ.”
by cueball44
Saturday, October 27 2012, 9:04PM
“I told a policeman that some caravan folk had broken a padlock off the gate on Cecil Street, he looked at me daft then said ring 300 300 and walked away shaking like a leaf.”