FURIOUS locals at a UK beauty spot have had their views wrecked by a line of battered and rotting caravans. A landowner in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire , has plonked the "wall" of dilapidated vehicles along a stretch of a popular public footpath. The farmer claims he was forced to take the unusual step in order to stop "vandalism" on his property .
But fed-up residents say the blockade is "an eyesore" and want him to remove them immediately. The land on the edge of the popular town has been a bone of contention between the town and the site's owners for several years. Residents had previously been able to walk freely across the Verney Fields - part of a farm known as Spring Valley Orchard Farm - for centuries.
Read more News As the town's largest open, green space, the spot has been a popular recreational attraction since the early 1800s. But now the current owners, who have renamed it Windmill Farm, are blocking locals from using the land by putting rows of beaten-up, rotting caravans along the public access path. The caravans are effectively being used as fencing, locals say.
Furious Mike Giles, 67, lives close to the spot and told the Sun: "This land has been a part of the community for so long. Most read in The Sun "People really love the space and it is a shame they think they can take advantage by taking it from us. "There has been so much torment with just trying to keep the public footpaths there which have been around for ages.
"There is so much history in that place .