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Just to bring people up to date with matters surrounding illegal camping in the town.
Yesterday, once again our council staff had to down tools in their normal roles and get “suited and booted” in their bio suits to clear two more illegal camp site from the town centre.
The first one was in the Wormgate area, on Archer Lane, and was located behind a brick wall near the car park on Fountain Lane.
It would appear that it’s been in existence for around 3 weeks, but looking at the state of it you would have thought more like 3 months, with around 3 lorry loads of debris, made up of rubbish and the vegetation that was removed to prevent more camping!
I once again spoke with staff from the council and the local police whilst at the site, and it appears that there were several people living under the tarpaulin, and in fact two of the occupants were awoken by council staff.
Alarmingly these people have “migrated” from Witham Way County Park and were amongst those rounded up last month and given advice and offers of support none of which they have bothered to take up!
The second site was over in Skirbeck, where a camp had been in existence for about a week, and this needed urgent attention as it was adjacent to a nursery school.
Now, the staggering truth is that these individuals do not wish to be assisted and it would now appear that we can not send them home, as they don’t want to go home, so in effect we could be chasing these vagrants around the town for years!
At the first meeting of the new group set up to tackle this issue, mention was made of inviting Mr Mark Simmonds MP to one of these meetings.
I assumed this would be done, and was somewhat surprised to have a lady on the doorstep make a proclamation that “THE BNP” won’t let Mark attend any council meetings.
Slightly unsettled by this statement I tried to re assure the lady that as I am the ONLY member of the BNP on council that was she had been told was complete nonsense; however she was not having any of it.
That evening, I wrote to Mr Simmonds and outlined the situation in my email detailed above (CLICK TO ENLARGE) and have now been advised that he will be attending a meeting here in Boston in November with council officers, to discuss what assistance he can give to try and find a resolution to this ongoing issue.
Now, I shall wait and see If I will be invited to the meeting I set up or whether Mr Simmonds will play school boy politics and refuse to attend a meeting in which there is a BNP councillor in the room.
I hope not as he and I did have a chat during the election count back in June and I am one of his constituants!
Yesterday, once again our council staff had to down tools in their normal roles and get “suited and booted” in their bio suits to clear two more illegal camp site from the town centre.
The first one was in the Wormgate area, on Archer Lane, and was located behind a brick wall near the car park on Fountain Lane.
It would appear that it’s been in existence for around 3 weeks, but looking at the state of it you would have thought more like 3 months, with around 3 lorry loads of debris, made up of rubbish and the vegetation that was removed to prevent more camping!
I once again spoke with staff from the council and the local police whilst at the site, and it appears that there were several people living under the tarpaulin, and in fact two of the occupants were awoken by council staff.
Alarmingly these people have “migrated” from Witham Way County Park and were amongst those rounded up last month and given advice and offers of support none of which they have bothered to take up!
The second site was over in Skirbeck, where a camp had been in existence for about a week, and this needed urgent attention as it was adjacent to a nursery school.
Now, the staggering truth is that these individuals do not wish to be assisted and it would now appear that we can not send them home, as they don’t want to go home, so in effect we could be chasing these vagrants around the town for years!
At the first meeting of the new group set up to tackle this issue, mention was made of inviting Mr Mark Simmonds MP to one of these meetings.
I assumed this would be done, and was somewhat surprised to have a lady on the doorstep make a proclamation that “THE BNP” won’t let Mark attend any council meetings.
Slightly unsettled by this statement I tried to re assure the lady that as I am the ONLY member of the BNP on council that was she had been told was complete nonsense; however she was not having any of it.
That evening, I wrote to Mr Simmonds and outlined the situation in my email detailed above (CLICK TO ENLARGE) and have now been advised that he will be attending a meeting here in Boston in November with council officers, to discuss what assistance he can give to try and find a resolution to this ongoing issue.
Now, I shall wait and see If I will be invited to the meeting I set up or whether Mr Simmonds will play school boy politics and refuse to attend a meeting in which there is a BNP councillor in the room.
I hope not as he and I did have a chat during the election count back in June and I am one of his constituants!
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