IT was a relief to see the proposal to use Hangleton Bottom as a temporary travellers’ site rejected (Argus, October 17).
The site is clearly unsuitable and would cause huge disruption and distress to local residents on the Downs Park estate.
The Green administration should have been planning for a more suitable temporary site years ago and it is clear that they view outer areas of the city, such as Portslade, as somewhere to ignore except when they need quick-fix solutions for unpopular decisions.
Both the residents of Downs Park, North Portslade, which borders the site and the travellers themselves, deserve a better deal.
Only a Labour Party administration have committed to getting such basic decisions of running a city right if they form the council in 2015.
Labour councillors Les Hamilton, Alan Robins and Bob Carden and Labour candidate Peter Atkinson
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