Forums Forums Local News Gypsy Site Plans Unveiled -Neston/Ellesmere Port

Surely it's on topic if he thought she was a gypsy. More on topic than your single emoticon post, anyway. Just sayin.

lmao

My single emotion post was more informative, and relevant than your reply. Just sayin'

I think travellers are finding that they are no longer "free to roam" in the UK and having bases in the South means they can travel on into Europe. Bases in the North West would suit as it gives access back to their real bases in Eire.

If the travelling population keeps on growing what happens then? Perhaps a real school education will make a difference.

Does anyone know what ordinary hard working Irish people think of them?

Recently gypsies have been in the news in Australia. Doing driveways, lopping trees, ripping off the aged pensioners etc. and making themselves very unpopular here as well as in the U.K. Many local papers have been warning the general public to be alert to their rip-offs.

They're going to pay council tax????? Good luck with that one.

Why do they need permanent sites if they travel? As much as I want to be ignorant about it all, I don't understand that.

A permanent site for travellers to use, not stay.

But how will you regulate the time they "stay"?

Just think of a locust swarm, they move onto a place, suck it dry of everything they want and then move on.

They already have asite on heath road Ledsham next to the brook meadow hotel,lots of houses now up for sale along the welsh road, and another small site in the grounds of a house near Costco Ellesmere port.

[quote=paxvobiscum]Update today's Radio Merseyside:

Has been announced, due to the proposed travellers site, that some Companies are pulling out of the Industrial Estate in Neston.
One is moving all operations to it's site down south and so ninety jobs will be lost in Neston

Hmm...sounds a bit odd, as plans for the Neston site were dropped in November - Wirral Globe report - unless that decision has been overturned, and I can find no reports anywhere saying it has

Thanks Cobby. I cannot find anything either in print so will have to wait further official updates.

When I lived in Suffolk, a group of travelling gypsies arrived and plonked themselves where they chose. Only a small town and the locals tried to make them welcome, particularly the children in the primary schools. All I can say is just watch what your children take into school and make sure they bring it all home at the end of the day too !
It's so sad, they could be accepted so much more if they could blend in. As one person said, I don't understand why if they are travellers do they have permanent sites given to them.? I wonder if they will be paying council tax? It would seem we are all changing rolls. Those of us who may rent properties quite often have a short term contract and have to up sticks and move to somewhere else, which is all very stressful and hence the children have no continuity and nowhere to call home. Maybe we should all try this gypsy game,it might be more satisfactory!