Summer site for Travellers to open within a week - Dorset

From the Dorset Echo

A SUMMER-ONLY site for Travellers in Dorset is set to open within a week.

It will give authorities more powers when dealing with travelling groups as they will now be able to direct them to the site at Piddlehinton.

The announcement comes days after a group of travellers set up an unauthorised camp on Weymouth’s park and ride site at Mount Pleasant.

The group has now left and ‘hasn’t settled anywhere else in Dorset,’ the county council said.

The authority came in for criticism last week over how it dealt with the situation, allowing the group to stay for a week.

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