We need action in Peterborough on unauthorised travellers’ camps. Our parks and open spaces are there for the whole community to enjoy. Yet too often they are taken over – and sometimes trashed – by unlawful encampments, writes MP for Peterborough Paul Bristow in his weekly column for the Peterborough Telegraph.
"Only a few days ago parts of Bretton Park were left in an appalling state after another unauthorised camp. We have seen it before in Walton, Gunthorpe, Werrington and Westwood – and I’m sure that readers will have heard about the local parks that were used as camps at Orton Goldhay and Orton Mere..."