Saturday - February 11, 2012

one law for gypos and another set of laws for the law abiding. sounds about right.

Notices were placed on villagers’ car windscreens two days ago reading:

‘Will owners of vehicles please make sure that there (sic) vehicles are removed from these roads until after the abnormal load has passed, which should hopefully be by 2pm Friday’. The mobile home is pictured squeezing past a historic pub, with police in tow.

It’s a bit hard to read on the car windshield so I’m trying to decide if it was a council officer who couldn’t spell or if it was a traveller notice.  Looking at the upper left corner it appears to be a crown like image.
Whatever ….  this bit of lunatic asylum story screamed to be shared in spite of my previous comments about tiring of this subject.
You must admit though, this is a bit out of the ordinary when the cops have to escort illegal activity.

Giant gypsy ‘caravan’ gets police escort through village to ILLEGAL travellers’ site after council forces residents to move their cars

· Officers with Land Rover and squad car escorted ‘abnormally large’ wide load vehicle to site
· Furious villagers lined the streets and refused to move their cars despite police orders
· Travellers are challenging Government ruling declaring their site illegal

By ROSIE TAYLOR and DAVID WILKES

When the residents of a small village heard a huge static caravan was being transported to an illegal travellers’ site, they expected the police to take immediate action.
What they didn’t expect were notices saying their cars would be towed away if they didn’t move them as the caravan was given a police escort through their main street.
‘Any vehicle that is obstructing this movement will be towed away at the owner’s expense,’ the signs warned car owners in South Harting, West Sussex.
The 15ft by 40ft caravan – thought to have cost up to £20,000 and to have two bedrooms – was being delivered to a site which has been ruled illegal, but is subject to a planning appeal.
As it slowly lumbered through the village yesterday, struggling to negotiate narrow bends and pulled by a lorry and escorted by two police vehicles, residents stood and watched in disbelief.
David Barnard, chairman of the parish council, said: ‘If they are not allowed there, isn’t now the time to stop another vehicle going on the site, instead of helping it? The concern is once there is permission for two caravans, suddenly there will be 22.’

Break,break … Need some advice here. LYNDON?

Why would she need permission to fix leaking windows?
What rewiring? On windows? If wiring was already in place, surely permission would have been given in the past. And permission for new plumbing in a Grade Two house?  I thought that would only apply for Grade One. ??

Things sure do get turned upside down here.

A mother of two, who asked not to be named, said: ‘It is absolutely outrageous. I live in a Grade II-listed house with leaking windows that needs rewiring and new plumbing, but when I applied for planning permission it was refused. I’ve got two children and no central heating but these guys can just move in. It is bang out of order.’

Neil Simpson, 50, said: ‘When I had a little touring caravan the council came down on me like ton of bricks. They told me to take it away so I did, because that’s what people like us have to do. There are perhaps two laws being applied.’
A Chichester District Council spokesman said they understood residents’ concerns about the delivery of the caravan, adding: ‘We have taken action in a number of different ways.
‘There is a planning stop notice which prohibits more than two mobile homes and any engineering work on the land. We understand one of the mobile homes has been removed.
‘We have also served an enforcement notice requiring the removal of the mobile homes from the land, which the owners appealed against. This is now the subject of a High Court challenge.’
A police spokesman said: ‘We recognise the local sensitivities around this issue. We are playing a minor role in the event.’

TEN MORE LARGE PHOTOS HERE. YOU GOTTA SEE THIS.

Why are these people still called “Travellers” they are obviously not planning on “travelling” anywhere! One of them even said “They might as well get used to it because we’re going to be there for a long time”!
- Sharon, Paris, 11/2/2012 10:20

Posted by peiper     on 02/11/2012 at 06:56 AM   
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