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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Kate Lally

People are livid after travellers set up camp illegally - again

Local people have expressed anger after travellers set up camp illegally on land in Bootle.

A convoy of caravans parked up off North Perimeter Road on Friday (April 26) - and is still there.

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People living near the camp say they are experiencing men knocking at their homes offering to carry out driveway and garden improvements.

Clair Louise Vaughan said: "They have already knocked on my elderly mother twice."

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Laura Jackson said: "It will be our council tax money used to clean up after them."

A spokesman for Sefton Council said: "We have spoken to the travellers on the land off North Perimeter Road and have started the required legal process to ensure they can be moved on as quickly as possible."


Last month, two vans and three caravans were parked illegally on the empty Kew Park and Ride site in Southport.

Less than two weeks later, travellers set up camp at one of the town's children's play areas.

Figures obtained from a Freedom Of Information request last year showed travellers set up camp more than once a month in Sefton.

In June 2018, residents were outraged when travellers pitched up illegally at three different areas in the borough within the space of a few weeks.

 
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