Illegal travellers went elsewhere

John Fareham and John Abbott were relieved to note that the travellers who were reported in the Hull Daily Mail as having left their illegal camp site elsewhere in the city did not appear to be having recourse to open spaces on Bricknell Estate. Obviously it is too early to say that we will never, ever have problems with travellers again, but equally it would appear that the patient effort we both have applied to this problem, together with the efficient ministrations of the officers and of the council's legal staff, have brought us to a position whereby our defences would appear not only to have been fully sufficient to deter the abuse of such manifestly inappropriate "open spaces" as the grass verge alongside Appleton Primary School, but also to have been sufficient for travellers not to have thought it worth their while to come here at all. It remains the case, however, that we will be vigilant and prepared to act should we receive any further reports of an illegal traveller encampment within the ward, wherever it may be situated.