PC Andrew Harper’s mother again pleaded, in person, with West Berkshire Council to reject controversial plans to approve a multi-million pound upgrade to the traveller caravan site linked to the death of her son. “Ask yourselves honestly, if Andrew was your son would you approve this?” she asked at the eastern area planning committee on Wednesday last week. But the plans were approved. That same meeting heard an admission from the council that it had lost control of the site which had ‘spiralled out of control’ in the run-up to PC Harper’s death, saying it did not, and does not have, people ex…
