IT has been an ongoing problem for years for both the gipsies and councils throughout the land and no one seems to know what to do.

If they park on the roadside, they cause an obstruction. If they buy a field and set up a camp, arranging sewage disposal, piping in water and electricity they are still doing wrong. But if they had applied for planning permission, would it have been granted?

I have driven past the Eckington site and from the road it is practically invisible with the fencing in position. If the fences were higher and completely surrounded it, the site would be invisible.

When gipsies squat on a temporary site they usually leave their rubbish behind for someone else to clear away. But if they own the site surely it would be a different matter.

PETER ALCOCK,

Upton Snodsbury.