In response to Jeff Williams’s letter (February 4), I feel words like ‘apartheid’ and ‘segregation’ in the context of accommodating travelers on an appointed sight is rather strong.

Yes there is a division in wealth, but this applies to Britain as a whole as with countries worldwide, even in our beautiful Bournemouth and Poole.

That doesn’t make it right, just a fact of life.

The simple fact is that unfortunately the ‘travelers’ in many cases have left us with plenty of cause to need them to camp on a dedicated site. There will be rubbish bins, and toilets, the two most important things that are not always available on many of our open spaces, and if there are, not adequate enough for camping.

Plus, some people have experienced verbal abuse from the travelers and sometimes dogs causing problems for walkers.

I don’t necessarily agree with the site chosen and some may say it’s the old adage ‘not in my back yard’ but, with all the problems I have mentioned sites must be found with little disruption to the tax paying community.

It is a very difficult call.

We do not want already low income areas to have to bear the brunt, as is often the case, but neither is it sensible to put them in an area such as Sandbanks.

We must accept that the travelers choose to live as they do and do not wish to be part of a community other than their own, otherwise they would not travel.

With all this in mind, there must be small areas on the outskirts that can be used rather than herding everyone into one area.

Rita Powell, Bournemouth