Travellers removed from Bricknell Estate

John Fareham and John Abbott have secured the removal of travellers from the pathway between Hotham Road North and the rail footbridge.

Local residents got in touch with us as soon as they arrived and as usual we made officers of the Council and Humberside Police aware of their arrival.  Given that they turned up on Friday evening and, with typical disregard for the wider community, parked right alongside Appleton Primary School fencing, we continued to keep in touch with all concerned across the weekend, pending the chance for the officers to get into the office and start work on the legal paperwork. Until the court heard the matter on Friday, by which time the travellers had taken 48 hours’ notice of the court case as 24 hours’ notice to disappear, the staff of Appleton Primary School had to keep children in at break times to keep them safe from the travellers’ dogs and there were regrettable instances of Appleton pupils being hassled by traveller children on the way home to such an extent that parents and the  police had to intervene. We are of course checking with the police to say whether there is to be any follow-up on that.