The Wail at its finest

[vetran]

council just need to leave it as a £0.5m mud pit.

then when new owners get fed up of applying for planning they can rattle the brown envelopes.


Then there will be 300 affordable homes on the site and a few councillors with yachts.

result

[Doggy Styles]

Pykies.

[KentPhilip]

Pykies.

But why would pikies/travellers pay half a million for a patch of land, when they could buy the same area of farmland for much less?

[norrahe]

But why would pikies/travellers pay half a million for a patch of land, when they could buy the same area of farmland for much less?

Don't you mean occupy it illegally for nowt.

[Ignis Fatuus]

Don't you mean occupy it illegally for nowt.

Not much difference, farmland is only about 5-6k per acre, i.e. £400 for a house-sized plot. It is artificial scarcity of land that makes house prices so high. Travellers must think we are fools for putting up with that.