A group of travellers that set up camp on Earl Road last week have moved on leaving piles of rubble and rubbish behind them.
They arrived in the early hours of Tuesday, February 18th, and parked up nine caravans and 11 vehicles on council owned land, adjacent to the Handforth Dean retail park.
The travellers moved on on Wednesday evening, having been served with a notice to quit by Monday, 24th February, by Cheshire East Council.
This is the same site where travellers set up camp in August, September and November last year, however these were a different group.
On each occasion the travellers have gained access by moving the two large tree stumps, which the Council placed across Earl Road to act as a blockage.
Wesley Hutton, Team Leader at Cheshire East Council, was at the site on Thursday to assess the clean up operation. They will return on Monday, 3rd February, to clean up all the litter that has been left behind. Then one day next week they will load up all the rubble onto a lorry and take it to a waste transfer site, as it will be too heavy for them to transport by tractor and trailor.
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please please please use local reliable tradesmen with landline number on their cards, fliers ,vehicles. check the person quoting is registered insured and pays tax .if you don't know the person/s doing the work take vehicle reg numbers etc for some attempt of traceability.
Same old problem, same old tired excuses from our incompetent council and police farce who just turn a blind eye to their crimes.
The gypsies will be back soon and will do exactly the same thing again and again and again. So when will any of the many people paid to stop this actually do their job?
PS I note that this week that the Sentencing Council stated fly-tipping fines should be tougher and courts should give more maximum fines. Well it helps if you actually arrest anyone in the first place doesn't it.
Come on council listen to the people.. get smarter with your enforcemnt and management of these issues... Allocate some resources and get busy..
Maybe this FURTHER clean-up should be paid out of the councillors / execs own wages... not council funds.................they would do something about it then I'm sure... Beyond a joke...
Well, as a tax payer being fed up of my hard earned going down the flush. How about the next time the travellers turn up they are watched.
I would propose that the CEC and Cheshire police traveller liaison officers (that we all pay for) sit on site in shifts watching what goes on.
A comical response to all this nonsense came from the Crime commissioner himself." It's our own fault for not providing a site".
Then again health and safety doesn't apply does it!
But I do detect several black plastic waste sacks with contents intact. Come the clean up, I would expect CEC to search the contents for discarded correspondence, with recipient name & address, who could be charged with illegal fly-tipping and associated costs.
During the clear up I hope CEC will remove 2 redundant tree trunks.
Perhaps next time CEC may consider installing concrete tank traps, but I would prefer Cheshire Police to enforce current road traffic & parking legislation, applicable to all road users.
I guess the work done was probably cash in hand, report it to the inland revenue.
The lapse response you get will suprise.Obviously no address ,car reg not good enough.
For a government clamping down on cheats its pathetic.
It would be nice to hear some positive action from the council, not just leaving it the the police and providing excuses why things cant be done........ and maybe identify an individual actually taking responsibility to use legislation and resources pro actively not reactively as they continue to do so in this recurring situation....
The three articles of local government faith: 1.it takes longer to do things quickly; 2.it's more expensive to do them cheaply; 3.it's more democratic to do them in secret.
What is required is legal,lateral thinking thinking solution
They would then identify who dumped the debris and could act accordingly.
The problem is though that they just can't be bothered.
and your suggestion is????
This type of scandalous activity requires some strong action from a Council that needs to show it cares. By blocking the road it would also prevent them conducting any further illicit trading.
If this was taking place outside a Councillor's residence you can be sure CEC would find a way to do something about it.
Good idea but your last comment is probably near to the truth. However, wouldn't it conflict with travellers' civil rights.I certainly wouldn't want anybody spying on me going to the toilet!!!
Government is tightening up the definition. Just because you take to the road does not make you a traveller. Have you seen the caravan sites for holiday makers and non of those would seek to be defined as a traveller.
Equally a traveller or gypsy who chooses static life must cease to be a traveller or gypsy surely, in terms of different rights and special council treatment.
CEC are out smarted time and agsin, paying for a traveller gypsy department who know that survival in their fur lined rut is dependent on there being regular issues to sort out. Sir Humphrey would have understood all too well.
I think the answer is the Council and the Police just cannot be bothered.