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Will Minety Gypsies be able to stay?
When passions run as high as they do over neighbourly disputes, it is perhaps wise that the language of the planning inquiry is as dispassionate as it comes.
Which is why during the inquiry into the Minety Gypsy encampment, Wiltshire, highways engineer Mark Baker was trudging through the grey afternoon with his measuring gizmos, getting the exact numbers on sight lines and safety factors.
But for all of those concerned with this deeply controversial site, what it comes down to is a very simple question: Do the Gypsies who moved into the area in August 2003 have a right to stay?
When passions run as high as they do over neighbourly disputes, it is perhaps wise that the language of the planning inquiry is as dispassionate as it comes.
Which is why during the inquiry into the Minety Gypsy encampment, Wiltshire, highways engineer Mark Baker was trudging through the grey afternoon with his measuring gizmos, getting the exact numbers on sight lines and safety factors.
But for all of those concerned with this deeply controversial site, what it comes down to is a very simple question: Do the Gypsies who moved into the area in August 2003 have a right to stay?
After reading this I am torn.
It seems that the gypsies are trying to settle down, to join in with society but have made the worst start by instantly and deliberately breaking the law to try.
I would love to let them settle down. I really think the gypsies are doing the right thing, just in the wrong way.
They should have bought land they could develop. But then I wonder, how much of the current ill feeling and bad press towards the fly tipping, tarmaccing stereotype gypsies prevents those with the money and willing actually buying land in the first place? Did they lie to simply enable them to gain the land? Who knows ...
Anyway, what do asylumites think about this situation?
I would like to see a compromise, maybe asking the gypsies to move to another area of land in the area where they can legally build and settle. They wish to settle, why not offer a solution and not just kick them out?