Local residents watched aghast as lorries arrived to put down hardcore and asphalt for three mobile homes the following day. There is no suggestion that Sir Keir knew anything about the travellers’ site in advance of the sale of his plot.
But the buyer, councillor David Stamp, 37,
who runs a chain of garages and a second-hand car business, told The
Mail on Sunday: ‘We would not have bought the land if we had known about
the travellers. The timing could really not have been any worse.’ The
mobile home pitches were built without planning consent on what used to
be an exercise area for horses behind the semi-detached house where Sir
Keir grew up in Oxted, Surrey....<<<Read More>>>....