Kingswells Community Council

Article by By Calum Ross

Aberdeen City Council is on the brink of bowing to public pressure and abandoning deeply unpopular plans to create four travellers halting sites, the Press and Journal can reveal.

Fierce opposition to the plans - and claims of death threats and intimidation by one councillor - has prompted the local authority's political leaders to ask officials to go back to the drawing board.

Is it me but when travellers turn up in Aberdeen we seem to get hit with leaflets for various building/garden firms, with only a mobile number as a contact. Last week it was a double glazing firm from Dundee. Guess what the address did not exist.

Then the council have to pay hundreds of pounds to remove building waste from these traveller sites. It seems to me that we should not be paying for traveller sites for people who will use them to carry out illegal work.

P&J Article: 12:00 - 22 November 2007

Private landowners may be asked to give up their land for Traveller sites.

Aberdeen City Council is re-opening consultation on "halting sites" for groups coming to the city, in a bid to stop rogue settlements.

The council wants to set up four new sites, two in the south and two in the north.

Our grateful thanks to the Lord Provost ( Peter Stephen) and Cllr. Len Ironside for voting against the proposal to place a Halting Site on the Park and Ride at Kingswells at the Full Council Meeting on the 21st November. They both represented the views of the majority of people in their constituency of Kingswells. Thank you. We are disappointed, at voting, it was not successful in getting Kingswells Park and Ride removed from future consideration.

In 2001 Aberdeen City Council were so proud of Kingswells Park and Ride that they nominated it for an award.

In 2007 Aberdeen City Council propose to use the Park and Ride site as a Gypsy Camp

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See a map of existing, proposed and alternative gypsy camps.

Aberdeen City Council and KCC are looking for new alternatives and these will be added on an ongoing basis. If you have any REAL alternatives then please add your suggestions (future feature). In the meantime you can add your suggestions as a comment to this posting.

How to use the map

P&J Article 12:00 - 13 October 2007

Rogue Travellers have moved onto land on a city industrial estate.

A group of four caravans have moved onto Hareness Road in Altens, nearby an area put forward by Aberdeen City Council as one of its temporary halting sites for Traveller groups.

STILL NO PROPER SITES SELECTED FOR TRAVELLERS

Fri, 05/10/2007 - 05:00 — KCC

Article from P&J 12:00 - 05 October 2007

The location of two new Traveller sites in the south of Aberdeen is still in doubt after councillors failed to pick a suitable spot.

Aberdeen City Council now has just a month left to find temporary holding sites for groups of Travellers.

COUNCILLORS SNUB KINGSWELLS TO BACK HALTING SITE FOR TRAVELLERS

Wed, 03/10/2007 - 13:56 — KCC

Article from P&J: 08:50 - 03 October 2007

A Community group in Aberdeen opposed to a travellers halting site being established at a park-and-ride facility suffered a defeat last night.

Presentation to Councillors

Tue, 02/10/2007 - 17:01 — KCC

 

Consultation On

The Provision Of Halting Sites

For Gypsy Travellers

2nd October 2007