Are There Many Gypsy Camps In Berkshire

[sandyRoe]

?

[retrocop]

According to my colleagues in TV police force and relatives in Tilehurst Reading. Affirmative and a pestilence and plague to all who deal with them.

[bhg481]

It seems to me, as a Berkshire resident, that most Gypsies around here are travellers who set up camps where they feel like it. Just one example:

https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/cost-defending-land-illegal-traveller-15954831

[Peter Pedant]

i did wonder when it was on the news that they had arrested ten men and impounded one car

[Buenchico]

West Berkshire Council has just one official site for travellers, with 18 residential pitches but no 'transit' ones.

Windsor and Maidenhead has two sites, with a total capacity of 25 residential pitches but, again, no transit ones.

Wokingham has two sites, with a total capacity of 30 residential pitches but no transit pitches.

Bracknell Forest has one site, with 13 residential pitches but no transit ones.

Sough has two sites, with a total of 39 residential pitches but no transit ones.

Reading fails to make any provision for travellers at all.

Across the whole of the south-east of England there are only 28 transit pitches, with 23 of them being just outside Brighton and with the other 5 being in West Sussex. (3 in Horsham and 2 in Chichester). It's the almost total absence of transit pitches, across large parts of the country, which often results in the illegal occupation of land.

[Buenchico]

^^^ Sough? Slough!!!

[lankeela]

Maybe now one of their own has copped it (no pun intended) they might do something about them - sick of the number of dogs being stolen, caravans and motorhomes nicked from driveways and shop owners being intimidated and losing money - they really think they are above the law well maybe now they will find they are not.

[Baldric]

There always used to be when I lived there years ago.

[pixie374]

I don't know... but in the last few weeks we have had some causing trouble in Bucks. Loads of mess and they have been evicted.

[sandyRoe]

PP, great minds think alike.
Lets not mention that fools seldom differ

[Old_Geezer]

"It's the almost total absence of transit pitches, across large parts of the country, which often results in the illegal occupation of land."

Not others' job to provide them. They want pitches they should buy land where local planning are happy for them to exist. Folk with no loyalty to an area because they don't reside there permanently and thus value neither the area nor the community there, aren't likely to find much sympathy from those that do.

[retrocop]

Perhaps sandy you should of asked if there are any counties or community's that have not been blighted by the travelling crime circus with their filth and lawlessness.
If the grey beamer, of interest to TVP, belongs to a traveller you can bet it isn’t taxed or insured like the rest of their luxury Mercs purchased with their ill gotten gain.
No Fixed abode??
There was a police seminar conducted to advise how to deal with travellers when the occasion arises. (a) If invited into their caravan respect it and remove footwear. The quip from a bored officer in the back was,”Yes and once removed hang on to them or you will walk back to the nick barefoot”. :-( whennthemoccasion

[TonyV]

We had a group of about 10 caravans turn up on our local playing field about a month ago. They had claimed the council had left the gate open, right. Local council and Police got involved and they were gone within 48 hours. But local small supermarkets employed security guards.

[DTCwordfan]

There's one in Windsor - it's called the Castle.

[jno]

Burghfield Common is the one being looked at

[237SJ]

There's one alongside the M4 in that area. I don`t know the name of it

[jno]

no, I've no idea where it is, it's just named on the internet

[237SJ]

There don't have to be Gypsy/Traveller camps for Gypsies/Travellers to be around in a certain area. The mortality rate in those communities is terrible. I think the average age of death is around 65 or something like that because the men travel far and wide for work and a lot of them die in road traffic accidents. So if Travellers/Gypsies were involved in the death of the police officer there is no reason to think they live in Berkshire.