A Home Counties village is now said to contain ‘more travellers than locals’ after a large new site was built without permission over one weekend.
Workers descended on the field in Tilsworth, Bedfordshire, two weeks ago before building an unauthorised encampment next to an existing legal site.
Locals say their lives have been made ‘hell’ by noisy construction work, a large fire and ‘threats’ against anyone trying to intervene.
The unauthorised development began on Friday, June 12, shortly before staff at Central Bedfordshire Council went home for the weekend.
Officials secured a stop notice the following Tuesday and are in the process of seeking
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