Wilmslow High School will have to pay out around £10,000 to clear up after travellers camped on a field near the school for a couple of weeks.
Having been issued with a notice to leave by Monday, 1st July, the group packed up and moved on to Carnival Field.
Behind them they left huge piles of rubbish and rubble such as paving slabs and garden waste. Their vehicles are marked 'driveway maintenance' and they are paid to remove waste.
Wesley Hutton, Team Leader at Cheshire East Council, attended the scene this morning to price up the job of clearing the site and said "the amount has to be seen to be believed".
He added "Unfortunately there is way too much for us to shift and Sodexho who maintain the grass have put in a quote via their sub contractor John Hardings. The quote is in the region of £10,000 which is very cheap and this money will come out of the school's budget which as we are all aware would be better spent on education."
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So just what's going on here? Why is the law not being used to extract full payment from those who made the mess?
Why is there so much politically correct pandering and no action taken to deter this anti-social behavior? The "travelling community" have carte blanche to do what they please, regardless of the damage they cause to others.
As always, its us tax payers who have to foot the bill - legal costs, police costs, council staff costs and extortionate clean-up costs too. And the travellers just move to another field and do the exact same thing.
But if you or I leave too much rubbish poking out our wheelie bin - you know what our council will to do you then.........