Alice Bloch and Katharine Quarmby argue in the article Environmental racism, segregation, and discrimination: Gypsy and Traveller sites in Great Britain that sites (caravan sites or trailer parks in American terms) are purposefully placed in locations with environmental and health risks due to racialized language and stereotypes that prevent them from being placed in specific areas. They mention how local authorities had no guidance for the creation of site development, being left to their own devices, making it easier for these sites to be placed in hazardous environments. According to Bill Forrester, a former government officer in the 1970s, many sites were placed on lands that they could just get on with no thought behind it (Bloch & Quarmby
