Why should they be treated differently from anyone else?
Are you proposing scrapping planning permission?
Nobody should be above the law, whether they be gypsies, travellers, you me etc
just because someone decided a law doesnt mean its right or i agree with it, there are plenty i dont! the way they treated them was wrong, they are human beings and we can all live in peace, if it was my land i'd let them stay
I'd have more sympathy if they were travellers who roamed from place to place and livied in the woods or the countryside. But to build these plots with walls and permanent facilities was nothing to do with travelling and everything to do with setting up a ramshackled housing estate with no planning permission, design or infrastructure. It needed clearing as it would if we did it on each others land.
If they want to be treated like a civilised society, they should pay towards that society, they don't, they leach and steal from it. No sympathy from me- none at all i'm afraid.
^^ and people who have built extensions to their legitimate houses have to take them down if they contravene planning regs - it's not just travellers who the law affects.