Parking row ultimatum on beautiful UK island as travellers cause chaos in seaside town

The owner of land has issued an ultimatum to travellers camped on the site (Image: Getty) The owner of a car park who blocked travellers from leaving the site has given the group an ultimatum in a bid to get them off his land. Malcolm Thorpe claims he bought the land near Bembridge on the Isle of Wight in 2011 and decided to stop the makeshift settlement by dropping 30 concrete bollards across the way into the car park . It meant the travellers were unable to leave with their vehicles and visitors couldn't use the place to park.

The group first settled there more than two years ago, but Mr Thorpe told the Telegraph the situation was "unacceptable", claiming travellers were defecating on the land and littering the roadside. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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