from the Evening Express
ABERDEEN City Council this afternoon voted in favour of a bylaw on Travellers' encampments.
The motion put forward by new council leader, Jenny Laing, was voted in favour of the SNP's amendment by 28 to 12.
The recommendation aimed to prevent people from camping on the "most sensitive, high profile public places, where the adverse visual and other physical consequences of encampments are likely to attract the most attention together with complaints and negative media coverage" was passed after a heated debate in Town House chamber.
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see also:
The BBC - Aberdeen Council votes for by-law against illegal Traveller camps
STV - Councillors vote to press ahead with Travellers bylaw
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