SIR - If I were to park illegally, behave in such a way as to cause distress to my neighbours, allow my dog to foul a public place and pile my garden with rubbish, I would be prosecuted for failing to conform to the rules of society.

However, the Council’s new strategy condones travellers setting up illegal camps and merely “asks” that they should obey ten new rules. So what if true to form they don’t?

Who will decide whether the rules have been contravened?

If the answer is positive who will authorise and action eviction and what will be the time scale of such process?

A Council spokesman says that it’s policy is to make it clear and certain that the needs of travellers are met.

So how much will it cost us to fulfil these needs and in a time of financial cut backs what other social services will be caused to suffer a commensurate disadvantage?

This new strategy is botched together on a false premise and the legal profession will have a field day picking holes in it resulting in the situation becoming worse than it was.

John Pashley, Westcliffe Avenue, Baildon