Public meeting called over van dwellers on the Downs If the camp on the downs is moved on where do they go? theres camps all over the city, camps that are growing all the time as well. sky high house prices sky high rents sky high housing shortages massive homelessness and Bristols building thousands and thousands of flats for students!!!
Public meeting called over van dwellers on the Downs - Bristol Live This? Bristol has more van dwellers than any other city in the country, with current estimates putting the number at as many as 800. I have doubts that modest number is correct. There are three camps in Brislington alone. Its the symptom of a dysfunctional Council. The council should be building caravan parks, the council should be ensuring there is housing for those who live here easing the chronic housing shortage, versus prioritising the colonisation of the City centre outwards by students and the people moving into the City.
Giant 16-storey block of student flats planned for Bristol trading estate to go alongside the thousands of other student flats being built in the area.
A few of the "interviews have been quite interesting " some of them are not down and outs!!! which could be partly expected ..one person of quite a few similar, interviewed on ITV LOCAL had a full time job, earned £33,000 pa and said he was fine living in a campervan as he couldnt find a flat in a suitable place at an affordable rent ..agreed there were plenty flats on the amount he wanted to pay for one but not where he wanted.. he said living here for a couple years and I could likely buy my own [ said he was saving council tax water/sewage but paid gym fee's so could shower daily launderette to do washing also his work place had a good "cheap canteen for his main meal" and cheap sandwich's /snacks etc he could takeaway to eat later!
More and more people are doing this as a lifestyle choice What we don’t want is sprawling trailer parks like I’ve seen first hand in America some of which have bad reputations and often for a good reason But I’d favour a basic caravan being used for illegal migratnts rather than a 4 star hotel, although they’d never allow it for human rights reasons
The site is in a trading estate, a very large trading estate which provides employment for working class people. The site is a few hundred metres from a large council estate. The site is not being to provide housing for the working class people who live and work in the area like the blocks being built around Temple Meads, along the Feeder, along Bath road. The area is under going a socio economic cleansing. Students first working class people can **** off.
I’ve often wondered how these ‘travellers’ manage to tax and insure their huge expensive 4x4s with (mostly) no job and no permanent address……..
there is a number of pretty newish vehicles certainly that you might pay in excess of £2k for. THERE MUST BE A compromise with respect to DVLA as a number of the "camper/ type/ vans" are not clamped although not taxed if not insured police can have them lifted to the pound after which a period time means they get released with relevant insurance certificate so are the 2 agencies being unfair to the run of mill citizen who comply and risk ..as a "neighbour" a street away .. might be 2 have had the DVLA CLAMP them and I believe one taken away after a "period". WHETHER THAT WAS NO TAX OR INSURANCE or both... I dont know ................
