Wiltshire Council’s approval of plans to set up a caravan site for travellers near Swindon received support from some Adver readers.

The two-pitch site is located at Clay Pitts in Greenhill, north of Royal Wootton Bassett, and applicant Mr McDonagh now has planning permission for two mobile homes, two caravans and two dayrooms.

These plans were refused in 2022 and 2023 and faced some local opposition but have now been redesigned to “minimise harm” to the nearby public right of way.

Here’s what you had to say on the subject.

Lesley Hall said: “Go and see some of the travellers sites for yourselves, they are clean, tidy, well maintained and the travellers I know are just the same as the rest of us.

“They don't want trouble and certainly don't go around stealing from the........

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