As I understand it, the eviction notice has not been enforced on the caravans and their owners currently residing on Stourport Memorial Park – despite the notice to quit served on them on April 22 – because the council needs to prove that it is not common land and is owned by them.

Whatever the merits or otherwise of that, what about other laws being enforced if police can’t (or won’t) deal with such illegal encampments wherever they descend?

Section 34 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 states that it is illegal to ride/ drive a motor vehicle on common land, moorland or Forestry Commission land.

Prohibition of driving mechanically propelled vehicles elsewhere than on roads: (1) Subject to the provisions of this section, if without lawful authority a person drives a mechanically propelled vehicle (a) on to or upon any common land, moorland or land of any other description, not being land forming part of a road, or (b) on any road being a footpath, bridleway or restricted byway, he is guilty of an offence.

Untold damage is being caused by the constant driving on and off the park by four-wheel drives and a lorry going to and from their caravans.

If I or any other local resident decided to turn the park into a racetrack we’d soon be dealt with. So how about some equality Mr Shaw?

Dave Benfield Stourport