Travellers shoudl be treated like everyone else under the law. They should not be allowed to flout the same planning and other laws that non-travellers have to.
The status of travellers as a racial group is undermining measures to tackle the illegal actitivites of (some) of the members of this group, whether it's breaches of planning law, trespassing, or other anti-social actititives where the authorities have to wear "kit gloves" to deal with them, because of their status under equalities law.
Travelling is a lfestyle choice, not a race, regardless of how many generations have been doing it.