![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/our-farmland-could-become-a-traveller-caravan-site-it-will-ruin-our-lives/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/newspress-collage-23393517-1691497665917.jpg&description=DISASTER ZONE Published : 15:10, 8 Aug 2023 Updated : 15:10, 8 Aug 2023 A COUPLE fear their lives will be ruined by plans for their farmland to be converted into a caravan site for travellers. Farmer Denis Waters, 30, and wife Shauna, 26, rent three fields for their 26 cows and bull in Magor, Monmouthshire. 7 Denis and Shauna Waters live at the farm with their baby daughter Credit: WNS 7 They use the fields for their 26 cows and a bull called Rory Credit: WNS 7 But the site has been identified as a possible permanent traveller pitch Credit: WNS 7 The site is located just off the M4 Credit: WNS But their home is now under threat after discovering, via Facebook, that the land is being considered as a site for 13 permanent traveller pitches. The couple would have to sell their cattle if the Monmouthshire County Council-led plans go ahead. Shauna said: 'We only found out a few days before there was a council meeting, we didn't find out from the council. "We were told by a friend who had seen it on Facebook and said: 'You need to have a look at this.' It has been really stressful with all the not knowing what will happen." The husband and wife, who have an 11-month-old daughter Winnie, have rented just over five acres from the council for the past two years. They also farm on land around Chepstow which is owned in partnership with Denis' family. But the couple say they could no longer keep cattle if the council decides to end the tenancy instead of renewing it. Shauna added: "We wouldn't have anywhere to put them as we need a designated field for the cows over the winter." The couple supply a major supermarket and have some 400 sheep which they take to market. Denis said: "If we sold the cattle we would still have the sheep but one of us would probably have to get another job." They fear daughter Winnie will will not have the opportunity of following her parents, grandparents and great grandparents into farming. Shauna said: "If we can't continue she won't have the optio){kind=link}
A COUPLE fear their lives will be ruined by plans for their farmland to be converted into a caravan site for travellers.
Farmer Denis Waters, 30, and wife Shauna, 26, rent three fields for their 26 cows and bull in Magor, Monmouthshire.
But their home is now under threat after discovering, via Facebook, that the land is being considered as a site for 13 permanent traveller pitches.
The couple would have to sell their cattle if the Monmouthshire County Council-led plans go ahead.
Shauna said: “We only found out a few days before there was a council meeting, we didn’t find out from the council.