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| Stone Formation Archive 2002 |
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published on June 13th 2002 THOUSANDS of travellers with nowhere to go between next week’s Stonehenge midsummer solstice gathering and the opening of the Glastonbury Festival are seeking to persuade landowners to provide them with park-up sites. But the approach by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for Stonehenge looks certain to be rebuffed by farmers and other landowners, who have bitter memories of the problems they had reclaiming their fields after the huge solstice gatherings of the early and mid-1980s. Paul Millard, press spokesman in the south-west for the Country Landowners’ Association, said: “I am not aware at this stage of any of our members being asked for permission to use their land. “But if approaches are made to them we would strongly advise them against allowing encampments on their property because of the inherent problems of repossessing the land afterwards.” TRC, which campaigned for access, said action was needed this year to provide somewhere for people moving between Stonehenge and the Glastonbury Festival to park up and camp. As there was a five-day gap between the Stonehenge solstice on June 21 and the Glastonbury event they were inviting landholders to consider entering a business arrangement to provide one or more park-up sites for travellers. Back to 2002 index |
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