Issue - meetings

This report provides an overview of how the council can meet its identified need for gypsies, travellers and travelling showpeople. The report will provide policy context, review approaches of some neighbouring local authorities, discuss the findings of the Council’s GTAA and explain some of the potential approaches that can be taken to meet the accommodation needs of gypsies, travellers and travelling showpeople.

Recommendation:

That the Local Plan Sub-Committee:

(i)        notes the contents of this report; and

(ii)       agrees with officers’ recommendation that the Council focusses on intensifying and expanding sites/yards where possible and allocates parts of strategic general needs housing sites to meet the remaining need.