Village vote of no confidence in fight to stop travellers site

Residents of Burn, near Selby, have voiced anger amid accusations the tiny village is being ignored as it not seen as a key vote-winning area. Selby District Council has also been accused of reneging on a promise that it would not consider introducing another travellers site on a former wartime airfield at Burn.

Burn Parish Council has recorded a unanimous vote of no confidence following an impassioned debate at a meeting in the village’s methodist chapel, which was attended by members of an existing travellers site at the airfield.