Travellers pose a dilemma at Swansea stadium car park
Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:49 am
Travellers pose a dilemma at Swansea stadium car park
Aug 23 2010 by Robin Turner, Western Mail
SWANSEA Council is considering putting in place security measures on a park and ride site close to the city’s Liberty Stadium after travellers moved in.
A report to the authority’s cabinet, which meets later this week, has been told the travellers moved on to the site in April 2007.
The site was intended as a park and ride and overspill car park for concerts and match days at the Liberty Stadium, home of the Ospreys and Swansea City FC.
But cabinet members will be told that in the last 12 months, 188 tonnes of fly-tipped waste has been removed from the site at a cost of £27,000.
And a crime survey has found instances of harassment, begging going on at the Llansamlet cycle track and animal and human faeces being found in bushes near the River Tawe.
The cabinet will be told that travellers themselves have sometimes been victims of crime.
The report also points out a delicate legal situation in which the council could face being accused of “accepting the permanence” of the traveller occupation if it carries out major measures to prevent crime.
The report says CCTV coverage of the area would cost £30,000 to install and redesigning the entrance of the site to exclude travellers would amount to £14,000.
The cabinet members are being recommended to introduce incremental security measures starting with highly visible “rule setting” signs at a cost of £500
AND SLEEPLESS IN CANTON
Aug 23 2010 by Robin Turner, Western Mail
SWANSEA Council is considering putting in place security measures on a park and ride site close to the city’s Liberty Stadium after travellers moved in.
A report to the authority’s cabinet, which meets later this week, has been told the travellers moved on to the site in April 2007.
The site was intended as a park and ride and overspill car park for concerts and match days at the Liberty Stadium, home of the Ospreys and Swansea City FC.
But cabinet members will be told that in the last 12 months, 188 tonnes of fly-tipped waste has been removed from the site at a cost of £27,000.
And a crime survey has found instances of harassment, begging going on at the Llansamlet cycle track and animal and human faeces being found in bushes near the River Tawe.
The cabinet will be told that travellers themselves have sometimes been victims of crime.
The report also points out a delicate legal situation in which the council could face being accused of “accepting the permanence” of the traveller occupation if it carries out major measures to prevent crime.
The report says CCTV coverage of the area would cost £30,000 to install and redesigning the entrance of the site to exclude travellers would amount to £14,000.
The cabinet members are being recommended to introduce incremental security measures starting with highly visible “rule setting” signs at a cost of £500
AND SLEEPLESS IN CANTON
Re: Travellers pose a dilemma at Swansea stadium car park
Tue Aug 24, 2010 1:18 am
Gypos!!!
Re: Travellers pose a dilemma at Swansea stadium car park
Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:56 am
Maybe it's a protest against us signing Bellamyj
Re: Travellers pose a dilemma at Swansea stadium car park
Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:25 am
bluebellers wrote:Maybe it's a protest against us signing Bellamyj
yeah dirty protests by the sound of it!! filthy gypo fukers
