The cost of looking after and clearing up after a group of travellers at an illegal camp in Ayr cost £5,952.98.
And that could have been spent on a new playpark in the Newton Green area of Ayr, the furious tenants group say.
The travellers spent lockdown on two sites nearby - one at Weir Road and the other on Newton Shore grassland.
Locals told how they were “taking the biscuit” and got better treatment and bin collections than they did.
Newton Green Residents Association said: “The Council tell us they have no money to upgrade our swing park. Here is an example of why.”
The Association lodged a Freedom of Information request to South Ayrshire Council to find out what was provided at what cost. It cost SAC £2,635.20 to provide bins and take away rubbish.
A London-based company Sunbelt Rentals Ltd were paid for 21 separate invoices which accounted for all but £60 of payments made to the private sector.
That was made up of supplying a pair of Portaloos and astonishingly a dozen “water tank refills” at £140 a pop.
The company also charged £250 for “damage to the water tanks.”
And movement of the plastic water tanks on one occasion on May 15 between the two sites was billed at £220.
As well as charges for supplying the Portaloos, there was also three invoices for “hire charge and cleaning” of them.
That totalled £694.75 down the pan.
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