A group of travellers allegedly hooked up their illegal site to the energy and water grid days before homeowners suffered a power cut.
The village of Tilsworth in Bedfordshire is now said to have ‘more travellers than locals’ after a large caravan park was built without permission over one weekend.
Workers descended on the field on Friday, June 12 – shortly before council staff went home – and covered it with hardcore to create an unauthorised extension to an existing legal site.
The following Tuesday, Central Bedfordshire Council secured a temporary stop notice requiring all construction work to cease.
In public communications, officials have repeatedly claimed the
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