I refer to Jack Straw's order to crack down on Travellers in Sussex who "break the law or behave antisocially" (Argus, August 16).

First of all, I doubt the Home Office would make a specific direction to Sussex in particular. Secondly, where does the notion come from that travellers are in any way above the law of the land? They are subject to the same rules and regulations as everyone else and rightly so.

If, when travellers pull on to land, they are trespassing, the law deals with this by court action.

The sites mentioned (Stanmer Park, Carden Park and Hollingbury golf course) were all gipsy sites. "New" travellers are of third and fourth generation so do these children have a "right" to travel too? Or are they excluded on the grounds of moral panic?

Travellers have not descended on Brighton purely to annoy people - nor is it an area any more or less tolerant than other counties.

Closure of common land and urbanisation have left nowhere for the nomadic people to go and, being nomadic, they travel.

Brighton is a good stopping place for those new travellers preparing to move to Kent for the fruit-picking season at the end of the month. Maybe this will allay public fears of cultural contamination and falling house prices.

-Karen Green, New Futures Asociation, Kingston, Lewes