I am writing with regard to the front page story (Gazette, June 14), headlined: “We’ll keep returning until we get our site”.

So, the travellers are blackmailing our council, virtually saying,“if we don’t get our way, we’ll be a continuing nuisance”.

Of course, this is not blackmailing the council, it is blackmailing every Colcestrian and is raiding our council taxes.

Travellers, eh? Perhaps I’ll join ’em and get a nice, free modern house at taxpayers’ expense.

Or maybe someone with some guts at Colchester Council will stamp their foot and get rid of these pests.

They are travellers – get them travelling.

Bob Dove
Launceston Close
Colchester

...If we are to provide permanent sites for travellers, then surely they become residents.

How can you have a permanent traveller?

I have no problem with people who pay council tax, income tax and National Insurance.

I am unsure if travellers contribute anything financially.

The reverse often seems the case when residents have to pay to clear up their detritus.

I remember the old site at the Hythe in Colchester.

Within a couple of years, it was a bomb site and derelict. Why repeat that fiasco?

Peter Griggs
Bellfield Avenue
Brightlingsea