Life set to get tougher for rough-sleepers as council mulls crackdown on authorised tents and caravans

Life is set to get a lot more challenging for North East Lincolnshire's rough sleepers, especially those who depend for their accommodation on  a tent - such as this one amidst Cleethorpes buckthorn. At a meeting on  Wednesday of this week, the council's cabinet is being recommended to rubber-stamp proposals for a ban on unauthorised camping or caravanning on land owned or managed by the authority. Those in breach of a proposed prohibition order could face a penalty fine of £100 as from May of this year. Whether any rough-sleeping  'offender' could afford to pay it is another matter.