Neighbours' fears over waste fires at travellers' site

A TRAVELLERS' site which received more than £116,000 in a Welsh Government grant for upgrading toilets and new perimeter fencing las year has angered neighbours who claim mounds of rubbish, including plastic, are being burned there.

- SHAURYA SHAURYA

The travellers’ site in Mill Stream Way, Llansamlet, Swansea, has been in the news in the past for similar concerns.

In 2017, it was reported that rubbish had been burned in woodland between Blawd Road and Mill Stream Way in Swansea Vale, and concerns raised by the residents.

Now, more than eight years later, it seems the problem has returned and is affecting communities in Llansamlet and Morriston.

Swansea council has said “investigations are ongoing” but residents have complained on social media of a “plume” coming from the site, as rubbish is allegedly burned there.

One concerned resident claimed on a Facebook community group on August 31 that waste was being burned at the site and was set to “poison us”.

They added: “Swansea council continues to let us[sic] happen.”