Travellers' site fear for 'gateway to Sidmouth'

THE possibility that land at the Bowd on the gateway to Sidmouth could become a travellers pitch has not been ruled out by East Devon District Council.

THE possibility that land at the Bowd on "the gateway to Sidmouth" could become a travellers pitch has not been ruled out by East Devon District Council.

The Government has ordered EDDC to find an additional nine pitches by 2011 and the Herald understands a piece of land off the A3052, on which there are caravans already, is one of several in the region to be mentioned as a possible site.

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