Support for defences at Havant park

HAVANT residents have shown strong support towards installing perimeter defences around Mengham Park to deter traveller encampments.

A planning application for the installation of bunds, swales and boulders around the Hayling Island park is now live through Havant Borough Council’s planning portal.

The application follows recent events where an unauthorised encampment arrived at Mengham Park and damaged tree saplings planted for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

Twenty-eight residents have already commented on the application, all in support of the scheme.

One t said: ‘I very much support this initiative. The proposed works mean that the park will be maintained for the use to which it is intended.’

The Traveller Movement and Friends, Families and Travellers were approached for comment.