On 22/08/2017 09:52, Huge wrote:
On 2017-08-22, Tim Lamb wrote:
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As a landowner, I have rather fixed ideas about trespass but also think
it is beyond time for the law to move on. Ancient laws allowing
travellers to put up on roadside land on the basis that it might be
common land are surely superseded by compulsory land registration and
internet access to that information.

Hear, hear.


The problem is insufficient decent sites.

The long term downside is field gates blocked physically with old
machinery/tree trunks etc. which have to be removed and replaced for
each field operation.

Some years ago they moved onto an old factory site near our house in St.
Albans. Someone (*not* me) found a swift and effective means of moving
them on; the first night one of the caravans was struck by half a gallon
of paraffin. They left the following day.


Not surprised. Horrible thing to happen.

And I repeat and emphasise that it was *not* me. Although I'd like to have
shaken them by the hand.


You meant to congratulate them for trying to murder people? Blimey.



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Cheers, Rob