Million-pound homeowners ‘don’t feel safe going outside’ after travellers bulldozed field next door

Homeowners in the quiet Hampshire village of South Warnborough say they are living in fear after masked travellers descended on a greenbelt field over the August Bank Holiday weekend, tearing up the land with heavy machinery and laying tarmac across much of the eight-acre site.The operation at Hares Farm began at approximately 5.30pm on Friday, August 28, just as local council staff were finishing for the three-day break, with witnesses reporting men wearing balaclavas and hoodies driving diggers and vans onto the former farmland.Large swathes of the field have now been covered in tarmac and gravel, with multiple caravans and mobile homes already in place.The land, previously used for crop farming, was reportedly bought for upwards of...

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