about a week ago.
There will be no more cricket in Shalford until the 25 or so caravans currently occupying the cricket green are gone. Lord knows what effect the caravan parked on the wicket is having. Normally there is a cricket match several times during the week in the late afternoon and then one on each of Saturday and Sunday. But no more. And the football pitch next to the cricket pitch is no longer available as it is also packed with them.
I'm guessing the burglary rate in the area has gone up, as I discovered a few weeks ago. Question is, how can it take so long for the council to get rid of them? Surely they have no right to stay and the old bill can just come around and evict?
Seems strange they can stay so long.
Really? I'm pretty sure the Shalford Cricket Club will have complained almost immediately. What I don't understand is what the process is to get rid of them and how long it should take. Surely there must be a law against living on public land? Aren't they at the very least trespassing and that is easily enforceable?
folk who have elected to live as free spirits unfettered by the norms and mores of the bourgeois tyranny.
Even worse than the thieving vermin themselves will be the army of SJW's from middle class backgrounds that will soon descend upon you all in force to defend them.
Don't leave anything valuable in your garden shed. They just tool up and smash their way in and take what they want, safe in the knowledge the police won't be along any time soon because, well, there are no police.
Pity the poor feckers that actually live by the green.
I just read an article which seems a bit of a contradiction, for instance there is this bit:
'The council or landowner can contact the police if a traveller site is trespassing and they can be immediately evicted from the site if there are two or more people, they have six or more vehicles parked on the land or one of them has caused damage or behaved in a threatening or abusive manner.'
However later on it says that the council will have to go through the courts etc etc. Given that they are preventing cricket being played on the green I'd think the council will push it but as you say, sounds like it could take months.