Authorised Gypsy/Traveller sites in Scotland are likely to be located near sewage plants, recycling and refuse centres, industrial estates and motorways, an investigation has found
A new investigation has found gypsy/traveller sites are likely to be located near sewage plants and refuse centres
The new analysis is the most comprehensive mapping of authorised sites in Scotland, revealing they are routinely located on the “wrong side of the tracks” – isolated, and with poor access to services. The site dates back to 1947, when Charles McPhee, a returning Second World War veteran was granted a 99-year lease on the land in Pitlochry estate by Perth and Kinross council. The McPhee family were provided with a war-time Nissen hut which had formerly been used for prisoners of war. It had asbestos in the room partitions, which was not removed until the 1980s.
She claimed the health of the residents, already fragile, with many having disabilities, has declined further. “The actual site, in the woodland, is nice,” she said. “[But] you can hear the cars, the caravanettes, the trains, the ambulances and buses to the hospital all day and night now. And we all have worse coughs now, asthma, with the pollution.” She noted that their health improved during Covid, when the place was in lockdown – but now it has deteriorated once again.
A site in Angus is on the site of a former medical waste dump, cut off from the town and near a railway line, while another site in South Lanarkshire is sandwiched between two roads and in an industrial zone. One site in West Dumbartonshire is near a railway line and on the access road to the tip. Four had flooding issues, with a further one being near to a river which was polluted from an old colliery in 2020.
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