REFERENCE to The Press article “Farmland” earmarked for travellers’ pitches” (The Press, September 20).
It seems inappropriate for councils to place this on their agenda as a priority when there is an ever- increasing demand for affordable homes to be built, to sustain a permanent stable society within any community.
We are already facing the prospect of building on green belt land, along with boundary changes which inevitably will give rise to all our services, i.e., schools, and all our medical institutions being stretched to the limit.
Freedom of movement in a democratic society is to be applauded, but everything comes at a price.
Money does not grow on trees.
Kenneth Bowker, Vesper Walk, Huntington, York.
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