Cheshire East Council is seeking to repossess Carnival Field after travellers, who were issued with a notice to leave last week, failed to move on.
They arrived on Wednesday, 3rd July, having been ordered to leave the Wilmslow High School fields. The group spent a couple of weeks on the fields adjacent to the A34 bypass before moving on and leaving the High School facing a bill of about £10,000 to clean up after them.
A spokesperson for Cheshire East Council said: "The Council is aware of the Gypsies/Travellers that are now based on Carnival Fields, Altrincham Road, Wilmslow. Their arrival follows their eviction by the Council from nearby school fields, off the A34.
"We have begun the legal process to secure repossession of the Carnival Field as soon as possible. A Council officer issued the Travellers with a notice to leave the site last Friday (July 5), but they are still there. We will be in the County Court, in Macclesfield, on Thursday to seek a repossession order.
"The rubbish left behind on the playing fields is the responsibility of the school and they will be cleaning it in due course. The police are aware of the Travellers and are, like Council officers, frustrated with the group's movements.
"Cleaning up after unauthorised and illegal encampments costs our communities and local taxpayers thousands of pounds. This is money that could otherwise be spent on improving our roads or local services."
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Public money is the cheapest you can get. No shareholders meetings, no dividends to pay, no financial institutions on your tail, no performance indicators, no pressure. Just dip on the well and help yourself.
And hows about the council use some of our hard earned to install some better methods of securing these fields we know the travellers use? Gates don't stop them - nor do padlocks. Why not something similar to those used to prevent ram raiders? If they can't get their vehicles on - they can't camp there. At £10,000 a clear up - probably half a dozen times a year - surely that would be a good investment as well as preventing the danger to the environment these folk cause?
I know the police policy is to try and keep things pleasant but why exactly is that? Why should these dirty fly tippers be pussy-footed around when decent, law abiding citizens are punished for much, much lesser offences? Enough!
The travellers behaviour is a form of anarchy which, if left un-chllenged, weakens democracy.
It is so simple as to be ridiculous, the Government has the power to change the law so that gypsies have to pay council tax, there is no rule or silly little obscurity in the law that cannot be overcome.
Gypsies should have to have an NI number, the same as every other person in the country, they then have to pay contributions, which could be allocated to central government, then any local authorities could apply to that central department for the costs of clean up after them. If the Government does not have the power to change the Law then get us out of Europe, when people voted and agreed to Europe it was to a financial common market for trading purposes only, not to have our laws run roughshod over so that we have actually no power over our own country, I believe somewhere in the laws of this land it is written that anybody handing over power of this country to a foreign power is guilty of treason.
The problem is that no government understands how much the law abiding tax payers of the UK are bitter about the amount of our money that is squandered on farcical situations that frankly border on being illegal, as it should be illegal for councils and/or governments to squander money that does not belong to them, whilst leaving essential services straining to the point of collapse under the stress of lack of funding.
Sadly it is the same with the Health Service, the Legal Service, the Education Service, the Housing Service and every other service that you, the paying public provide to an ever growing number of gypsies, illegal immigrants and lawless parasites that infest this beautiful country because we give everything for nothing.
Wait until your mother, child or dearest relative needs important health care, legal help or emergency housing, there will be nothing for you, the services are not for the working taxpayer, you are just the sucker that pays for them for everybody but you when you need them. I have first hand experience of this so I know what I am talking about.
If the gypsies do not want to pay Council Tax then it is simple they can clear up after themselves they all have vehicles which can transport them to the tip in the same way that I have to do when I clear my garden once a year.
I have no doubt that there will be somebody somewhere who wont like the contents of this post, if it gets through, we do not even have freedom of speech any more!
So, what is our police force and our Police Commissioner (with his team of a dozen "support staff") doing to impose this?
I mean, you don't have to be Hercules Poirot to figure it out "who done it".
As always - we just keep paying the bills though, while everyone else takes liberties.
So next time someone bowls up offering to do that job think hard and long about the real long term cost. Tradesman rarely knock on doors touting for work, the "travellers" are easy to identify, no local phone numbers, often using 0845 type numbers to gain credence, so decline, starve them of "work" and they will move on.
My house backs onto the Carnival Feild and these people have no regard for anyone, on Sunday night one of there dogs was barking constantly until 4am, not to mention the constant noise from the generators, then last night revving engines and loud music until gone 10.30pm.
The sooner the Police and Government start clamping down on these groups of people the better.
The court date is tomorrow, so I presume the council has secured other areas of open grassland from entry (e.g. the Jim Evison fields)?
The Council has now given notice to the travellers to leave Carnival Field today. If they have not done so by 5pm then officers have said they intend to turn up with the bailiffs to enforce the order.
CEC has also confirmed that they have been going round all of the areas in Wilmslow and Alderley Edge Area where they feel the travellers might attempt to gain access to check locks on a daily basis.
Anyone can film trucks dumping rubbish with registration plates on show and upload to YouTube , forward to our MP etc etc
I can see onto Carnival Fields over my back fence right now at 6:25pm on Thursday 11th July and the "community" are just sat out in the sun eating their dinner and still blasting out their rubbish music for all to endure! They must have worked up a hefty appetite after all the truck loads of fly tipping on the field that they have been doing today which I've had the pleasure of watching!
Well done Cheshire Council and well done to the Wilmslow Police Force. Another job well done.
Could you ring the local police to report the fly tipping? Tell them you have photographic evidence and insist on getting a crime reference number. I think you need to dial 101 for reporting a non-emergency crime [1].
I think we would all be interested to know the response you get back. If you/we are not satisfied with the outcome, then the next step could be to complain to the Police Crime Commissioner. The PCC web page currently says that since the PCC began, no complaints have been filed. The link to the PCC complaints page for Cheshire is here [2].
It may be the case that you just get fobbed off, but at least you will have an audit trail of being fobbed off to take further.
[1] http://tinyurl.com/lfsz7tq
[2] http://tinyurl.com/qj6xh75
The council has a duty to protect their ancient culture, so can't interfere. The police have to complete detailed risk assessments before they can act, by which time the travellers will have moved on.
Meanwhile, the PCC is too busy recruiting staff and sending out surveys to bother with any real crime.
And don't forget its our human right to just pay for the privilege of all of this without questioning why we bother.
We will then be expected to listen to all their complaining about how there is not enough money for front line services and why council tax and the police precept has to go up.
Are you there? Should you be the only person in public office strong enough to push the legal system into the present century by outlawing this gypsy lifestyle, another term would surely be yours!
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