Published date: 19 March 2016 |
Published by: Ben ReeseRead more articles by Ben Reese
ANGLESEY Council is facing a huge clean-up operation after travellers left behind hundreds of tonnes of waste near Mona airfield.
Among the refuse was rubble, garden waste and what is believed to me human excrement.
A group of around 14 travellers had been staying on the site adjacent to the airfield - accessed via the Mona Industrial Estate - for three weeks.
Anglesey Council confirmed they had arranged for the waste to be removed.
The same day (Friday) the County Council announced that a decision on the location of permanent and temporary residential traveller sites on Anglesey will be postponed.
A local business owner
from the Mona Industrial Estate revealed the extent of the fly-tipping to the Chronicle.
from the Mona Industrial Estate revealed the extent of the fly-tipping to the Chronicle.
“It’s absolutely awful, there are hundred of tonnes of rubbish. It will cost tens of thousands to remove," he said.
“The council said they were going to supply the travellers with two skips a week but there is 20 times that amount of waste.
“Although the council put toilets there, the travellers have not been using them. Apparently the RAF's bird scarer had to go and pick toilet paper out of the fences to make sure toilet paper did not go into plane engines."
."
The RAF were unavailable for comment.
The same business owner said traveller children and their dogs had been straying onto the runway.
owner said traveller children and their dogs had been straying onto the runway.
Under the Housing (Wales) Act 2014, Anglesey Council is legally required to assess and meet the accommodation needs of the gypsy and traveller communities.
The Mona site was being considered as a temporary stopping place but its suitability has now been thrown into question, following an extensive public consultation period.
A council statement read: "The response from the Defence Infrastructure Organisation has raised issues about the safety of locating a site for gypsies and travellers near an active airstrip in Mona, and officials will be asked to explore other options for a temporary stopping place in the centre of the island."
Anglesey’s Executive will now not decide on the location of a permanent residential site, proposed for the south of the island, until after the Police and Crime Commissioner elections on May 5.
will now not decide on the location of a permanent residential site, proposed for the south of the island, until after the Police and Crime Commissioner elections on May 5.
An agreement on the temporary sites is expected to take longer.
Anglesey Chief Executive, Dr Gwynne Jones, said: "Some of what we now know will, undoubtedly, impact on the suitability of some of the sites we’ve proposed, which means we will have to look again for other possible sites.
"This will, of course, set the process back and we’ll need to conduct a fresh consultation on temporary stopping places later in the year.”
see-http://www.northwaleschronicle.co.uk/news/159968/travellers-leave-anglesey-council-with-massive-mona-mop-up.aspx
No comments:
Post a Comment