Weston Beach Lawns

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Red9zero

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7,912 posts

64 months

Saturday 17th June 2023
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Well the hundreds of wooden posts around the beach lawns worked well. Two mysteriously got cut down and the Irish caravan club coincidentally arrived at the same time. Just driven past and they look well settled.
This is after they left Uphill cricket club, trashing practice nets and leaving rubbish everywhere. The Police wouldn't help as it was trespass on private land, so the CC had to use a private security firm to shift them. They are currently crowd funding as I imagine it wasn't cheap.

phumy

5,743 posts

244 months

Saturday 17th June 2023
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Is there a car event supposedly coming up soon?

EVOTECH3BELL

819 posts

31 months

Saturday 17th June 2023
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So travellers can just invade private land and the do nothing?

Red9zero

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7,912 posts

64 months

Saturday 17th June 2023
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phumy said:
Is there a car event supposedly coming up soon?
American car meet soon I think. They are in the middle part too. There is a refuse show (yes really) down the far end today.

Red9zero

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Saturday 17th June 2023
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EVOTECH3BELL said:
So travellers can just invade private land and the do nothing?
Appears so. The CC said they could wait for eviction orders, but they could see the damage being done, so bought in contractors.
What is so annoying about the beach lawns is that they didn't even bother to break the padlocks on the gates, they sawed through the posts to prove a point.

elise2000

1,555 posts

226 months

Thursday 29th June 2023
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Red9zero said:
EVOTECH3BELL said:
So travellers can just invade private land and the do nothing?
Appears so. The CC said they could wait for eviction orders, but they could see the damage being done, so bought in contractors.
What is so annoying about the beach lawns is that they didn't even bother to break the padlocks on the gates, they sawed through the posts to prove a point.
Absolutely crazy. Isn’t Weston a lovely place to live!

Red9zero

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Thursday 29th June 2023
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elise2000 said:
Absolutely crazy. Isn’t Weston a lovely place to live!
They have left now thankfully, although only moved to another part of Weston. Apparently the person who damaged the posts has been found and fined, which I'm sure will be paid. The council are still saying the posts are an effective deterent, as there have normally been more Irish caravan club encampments by now.

Red9zero

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7,912 posts

64 months

Friday 30th June 2023
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And they are back already. More posts removed apparently rolleyes

fourstardan

5,008 posts

151 months

Friday 30th June 2023
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They are probably on the move before the Blandford steam fair!

elise2000

1,555 posts

226 months

Saturday 1st July 2023
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Red9zero said:
And they are back already. More posts removed apparently rolleyes
It’s insane they can get away with it.