So our Police and Crime Commissioner Martyn Underhill writes in support of the Borough of Poole, following the decision of councillors to apply for planning permission for two temporary traveller transit sites in Poole this summer.

He states: “Every year, the travellers have nowhere to go and so they move to unauthorised sites.”

Yes, he is correct every year they come here, but only in the summer.

The council knows this because the application, if approved, says the site would operate between Good Friday and September 14 and travellers would not be directed to it after September 1.

It does not take much foresight to realise what will happen if more travellers arrive than can be accommodated in the transit sites, as they surely will.

We will be back to a similar situation as before.

As the law stands at this point in time they cannot be moved on unless local authorities provide a temporary transit site for them to be moved into. When will the powers that be realise that local residents do not want temporary transit sites for travellers. They would prefer to see them moved on. With this in mind what Mr Underhill, local councillors and MPs should be doing is persuading the government to change the law so that travellers can be moved on or return from whence they came, in other words whereever they stay in the winter months, because at this time of the year they are as rare as hens’ teeth.

CD MOYES

Harkwood Drive

Hamworthy