East Cambridgeshire District Council has spent £8,500 cleaning up the sites of former illegal traveller camps, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. 

The Ely Standard report:

THE cost of clearing up illegal encampments and traveller sites in East Cambridgeshire has set taxpayers back more than £8,500.

Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show that East Cambridgeshire District Council has stumped up £8558.88 over the last four years cleaning up and carrying out repairs to various sites across the district.

The bill included the cost of enforcement, legal processes, waste management, removal and storage of vehicles following eviction and works carried out to clean up sites.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.