As we get every year in Poole in July-August there is huge clamour and outrage that travellers have again arrived and are pitched up all over the borough.

As it stands now there are some 20 traveller pitches on Creekmoor park and ride site where ward Cllr John Rampton (Echo 14th August) speaks of the “hell” that residents have been through this year.

However, I have to say to this Cllr I have myself now visited the site and I really am at a total loss what exactly the problem is supposed to be.

Creekmoor park and ride is a large section of bleak abandoned land sandwiched between two very busy main roads. I can’t see anyone would ever want to live there – unless that is they had to.

As for the pitches, there are some twenty clean tidy caravans on the site. There were no dogs barking, no abandoned vehicles, no scrap metal. All I saw were a few children playing, one miserable looking portable toilet, and a fair amount of (mostly bagged) rubbish. And this is because I don’t think there was any skip. How then this encampment (of families with children) is supposed to be causing “hell” for residents in Creekmoor is beyond me.

But then the fact is these people can do no right can they.

Wherever they stop – even on the meanest most bleak abandoned chunk of land no-one wants to live on – they are condemned.

And that, in my view, is a shocking indictment of Poole Cllrs and resident groups who it seems to me are determined one way or another to ensure no transit site is ever set up in Poole.

Travellers to be condemned – wherever they stop.

Jeff Williams, Jubilee Road, Parkstone