Travellers and Bricknell Estate again

John Fareham and John Abbott are working to ensure a proper police response to any future traveller incursions on Bricknell Estate.

At a recent meeting of the Council’s Community Safety Overview and Scrutiny Commission, police officers were questioned on their attitude to traveller incursions.  They seemed to view the matter more as one of traffic control than as one of unlawful nuisance  to local residents and one even had the temerity to suggest that the comings and goings of travellers would in time come to be as familiar and accepted as the arrival of fairground equipment for Hull Fair.  We have therefore raised our concerns about this with Matthew Grove, the Humberside Police Commissioner, in the hope that he may be able to ensure that officers keep officers and members in the loop and take seriously the concerns of councillors of all parties, from all the wards across the city affected by traveller incursions, who have addressed local concerns about this source of noise and other forms of nuisance.