Bank Holiday ‘land grabs’ are making travellers millionaires overnight, locals have claimed – amid fears that land once considered unsuitable for development could now be sold for huge profits.
Patches of countryside in Essex and Kent were targeted this weekend as travellers swooped in to build unauthorised pitches while council offices were closed.
They are the latest examples in a trend that has seen travellers purchase land, often in leafy parts of the Home Counties, before concrete is laid and caravans moved in.
Planning permission is then sought retrospectively, with travellers often granted the right to stay because there is an ‘unmet need
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