REGARDING traveller sites, perhaps if Hampshire County Council were to provide appropriate stopping places with adequate facilities and good quality decent permanent sites, the Travelling community would not feel forced to park in public spaces.

Romany and Irish Travellers are recognised under the Race Relations Act and yet they are discriminated against again and again.

Their treatment is akin to ethnic cleansing.

HCC should be ashamed of itself selling off their statutory sites to private landlords who have no regard for the human rights of their residents. Accommodation should be provided in the same way as it is for the settled community. Travellers could then have access to education, health care and would be able to participate in society rather than being wholly excluded from it.

R Robertson. Full address supplied