MADAM - I read with interest the article in the Sidmouth Herald with regard to the possibility of siting a gipsy/travellers site at Bowd, and note that the owner of the site expressed a positive interest.

MADAM - I read with interest the article in the Sidmouth Herald with regard to the possibility of siting a gipsy/travellers site at Bowd, and note that the owner of the site expressed a positive interest. Hardly surprising, as if this idea ever came to fruition, he would be "laughing all the way to the bank". However, I wonder if he had cause to reflect on memories of just such a site which he started , in what appeared to be a much more suitable setting , near Tipton St John a few years ago. This appeared to be a thriving enterprise with, I believe, children attending the local school. Is it possible that the same authority which ordered its removal is now contemplating this new and seemingly much less appropriate site at Bowd?

Frank Leach

11 Woolbrook Rise

Sidmouth