Kingswells Community Council

Article by By Calum Ross

Aberdeen City Council is on the brink of bowing to public pressure and abandoning deeply unpopular plans to create four travellers halting sites, the Press and Journal can reveal.

Fierce opposition to the plans - and claims of death threats and intimidation by one councillor - has prompted the local authority's political leaders to ask officials to go back to the drawing board.

P&J Article: 12:00 - 22 November 2007

Private landowners may be asked to give up their land for Traveller sites.

Aberdeen City Council is re-opening consultation on "halting sites" for groups coming to the city, in a bid to stop rogue settlements.

The council wants to set up four new sites, two in the south and two in the north.

Our grateful thanks to the Lord Provost ( Peter Stephen) and Cllr. Len Ironside for voting against the proposal to place a Halting Site on the Park and Ride at Kingswells at the Full Council Meeting on the 21st November. They both represented the views of the majority of people in their constituency of Kingswells. Thank you. We are disappointed, at voting, it was not successful in getting Kingswells Park and Ride removed from future consideration.

In 2001 Aberdeen City Council were so proud of Kingswells Park and Ride that they nominated it for an award.

In 2007 Aberdeen City Council propose to use the Park and Ride site as a Gypsy Camp

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See a map of existing, proposed and alternative gypsy camps.

Aberdeen City Council and KCC are looking for new alternatives and these will be added on an ongoing basis. If you have any REAL alternatives then please add your suggestions (future feature). In the meantime you can add your suggestions as a comment to this posting.

How to use the map

P&J Article 12:00 - 13 October 2007

Rogue Travellers have moved onto land on a city industrial estate.

A group of four caravans have moved onto Hareness Road in Altens, nearby an area put forward by Aberdeen City Council as one of its temporary halting sites for Traveller groups.

Article from P&J 12:00 - 05 October 2007

The location of two new Traveller sites in the south of Aberdeen is still in doubt after councillors failed to pick a suitable spot.

Aberdeen City Council now has just a month left to find temporary holding sites for groups of Travellers.

Article from P&J: 08:50 - 03 October 2007

A Community group in Aberdeen opposed to a travellers halting site being established at a park-and-ride facility suffered a defeat last night.

Consultation On

The Provision Of Halting Sites

For Gypsy Travellers

2nd October 2007

Article from P&J: 12:00 - 29 September 2007

Council chiefs want to set up an official Travellers' camp on an Aberdeen park and ride site.

The Kingswells car park is one of four suggested locations across the city for the temporary sites.

But hundreds of objections have been lodged by people in Kingswells infuriated by the plan.