On Saturday i started a blog about my busy day which started really early Friday morning, for full story scroll down or read entry http://grasscarper.bravejournal.com/archive/06/20/2009

Anyway taken aback by the stropping of a resident we all walked down to the community hall in trimsaran.

Where Tea and Coffee with some biscuits were supplied and it was the first time I had ever been inside and I was impressed with the gym for the local boxing club, 

It made me start thinking about Hendy, which doesn't even have a meeting hall let alone a hall with a boxing ring and a theatre stage

One of the councillors who snaped the photos on my mobile phone said

"hey if you had known this facility was here you could have said to the boy racer lets get down to the gym and short your problem"

Anyway it was back onto the bus to go to the Llanelli Town Hall to drop off the four Housing Officers and Staff and to pick up the county council members on the social and health scrutiny.

Our next visit was going to be a real eye opener. We had been discussing in the chamber the management and funding of one of the counties travellers sites, because there has always a problem when travellers pitch illegally on the sides of roundabouts or on open land, and there's new Assembly guidelines on this issue?

Carmarthen already has a dedicated site where they can pitch and Swansea City Council has just been discussing a similar issue http://www.swansea.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=29281  

Taken off above link

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Have your say on gypsy traveller policy LOCAL people who want to have their say on Swansea Council's new draft policy for Gypsy Travellers have until May 15 to make their voices heard.

The policy has been revised in the light of fresh guidance from the Welsh Assembly Governement on how local authorities manage unauthorised camping by gypsy travellers.

On top of that the Commission for Racial Equality published its Common Ground Report in 2006 which set out ways in which Councils should develop strategies for promoting positive engagement and good relations between Gypsies and Travellers and other members of the public.

The draft policy is available on the Council's website and residents can respond either by email or via an online questionnaire. But responses must be submitted by May 15.

Full details are available at www.swansea.gov.uk and clicking on the

Have your Say section on the front page.

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CARAMARTHEN has thirty three pitches in the bynea site with only nine being used and it looked like there were only three or four that could be used immediately, because as the photos show it was a depressing sight

Which I think will be discussed at a later date when the two committee's hold their next joint meeting,

It was definately well worth the visit as many of the councillors had never been to the site and now that we've visited it first hand I think it will help the councillors when they discuss the Welsh Assembly's guide lines and the county council officers report and guidance,