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I do object to this proposal on the following grounds:

Whenever travellers are in this area we have suffered an upsurge in criminal activity. My neighbour used to have a sunbed in her garden shed. She went in there one morning to find a traveller asleep on it.
While I have respect for the right to genuine Romany gypsies to have places of rest on their travels (one of my not too distant relatives was a gypsy princess and those people were always good to my father when he was a child), what you propose to do would open the floodgates to all travellers and this includes the Irish tinkers who even the police are afraid of. Can you imagine what this would do for our older residents. They would have no peace of mind and would be living in fear of being robbed or worse with as we know, no chance of the law being brought to bear on the perpetrators. Not only that, any complaints against these people would result in reprisals as my friend was advised by police after he did some work for such a character and the man refused to pay him £6000. He was advised by the police to let the matter drop as the man had my friends address. Would you want this on your doorstep? Travellers are by name transient people and I believe have the right to places of rest but this would result in resident hell for us. You know this to be the truth so please do the right thing and scratch this idea. We really don't want this and unlike them, we pay our rates and taxes so should our wishes should I believe be considered as a priority.