Crompton Lodge Caravan Park, Bolton
Thomas Ward, a member of the Gypsy community shows me around his home at Crompton Lodge. He has noted double standards in the treatment of people from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller groups after Bolton Council started action to evict people from the Crompton Lodge caravan park. Travellers say they’ll be ‘left on the streets’ after the council started action to evict them from a caravan site where they’ve lived for 20 years.
Police say that an investigation they carried out last month into the illegal abstraction of electricity has lead them to cut off power at the site. Police have also reported that toilet blocks on vacant pitches have also been broken into and have been used to store stolen items, drugs and firearms, while stolen vehicles and high-value plant equipment have also been found.
Thomas shows me the toilet blocks with electricity meters inside which have been disconnected, and now he uses petrol generators. He says seven families - approximately 40 people - face losing their homes at the site, some of whom have lived there for two decades.
Thomas Ward, a member of the Gypsy community shows me around his home at Crompton Lodge. He has noted double standards in the treatment of people from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller groups after Bolton Council started action to evict people from the Crompton Lodge caravan park. Travellers say they’ll be ‘left on the streets’ after the council started action to evict them from a caravan site where they’ve lived for 20 years.
Police say that an investigation they carried out last month into the illegal abstraction of electricity has lead them to cut off power at the site. Police have also reported that toilet blocks on vacant pitches have also been broken into and have been used to store stolen items, drugs and firearms, while stolen vehicles and high-value plant equipment have also been found.
Thomas shows me the toilet blocks with electricity meters inside which have been disconnected, and now he uses petrol generators. He says seven families - approximately 40 people - face losing their homes at the site, some of whom have lived there for two decades.
