Gypsy site plan is slated for refusal - Malvern

A CONTROVERSIAL planning application for a gipsy site in a hamlet between Malvern and Powick looks set to be refused. The application, for land at Bastonford, is for a site with parking for five touring caravans.

Potential Traveller sites revealed for Bournemouth

FOUR potential locations for Gypsy and Traveller sites have been earmarked in Bournemouth, the Daily Echo can reveal. Three of them are on green belt land.
The suggestions, drawn up by consultants Baker Associates, are

• 10 transit pitches off Park Road, Lansdowne (bordering the Wessex Way and public car park off Lansdowne Road)
• three residential pitches near Erlin Farm, Muscliffe Lane,
• five residential pitches off Careys Road, off Broadway Lane
• eight residential pitches on the edge of urban development at Throop Road, between Woodbury Avenue and the allotments.

BRIDPORT: Concerns over Gypsy site plans

A LEADING town and county councillor fears that Bridport could soon be faced with its own “Dale Farm” if plans for proposed Gypsy and Traveller sites get the go ahead.

Planners to look at controversial Gypsy camp plan - Ewloe ,Wales

A CONTROVERSIAL gipsy camp will be discussed by county planners next month.
Hundreds of people have already voiced their opposition to plans for a five-caravan site on land off Magazine Lane, Ewloe Green.

Residents fight Davenham Gypsy site plans

RESIDENTS are gearing up to fight a proposed gipsy site in Davenham. The application is for a change of use from stables to a residential caravan site for two gipsy families with four caravans, including two mobile homes, and two small wooden sheds.

£45k to tell Gypsies ‘don’t eat horses’

WHITEHALL chiefs paid a PR firm £45,000 to teach Gypsies about an EU rule asking people to promise not to EAT their horses.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs gave the cash to Linstock Communications to "raise awareness" among travellers of the bizarre Brussels law change.
Under the move, owners had to sign a legal document promising not to dine on their animals. Refusal meant jail or an unlimited fine. Labour feared Gypsies would not know about the change.

Paddy Doherty's son's attempted murder trial is dropped

The son of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding star Paddy Doherty has walked free from an attempted murder charge.
David Doherty, 26, known as “Steak Pudding” to Travellers, ­allegedly drove over the legs of Thomas Ward, 36, then fired a shotgun at him.

Blackburn Gypsy site extension rejected

PLANS to extend a controversial Gypsy site in Blackburn have been rejected by council planning bosses.
Jimmy Evans had applied for consent to retain five caravans, a chalet, an amenity block, and a WC building, on a former coal merchant’s site at the rear of Vincent Street, Ewood.

Cheshire East Council looking for more sites for Gypsies and Travellers in the borough

CHESHIRE East Council is looking for permanent sites to accommodate Gypsies and Travellers.

Family celebrates as inspector gives caravan go-ahead - Uttoxeter

A ROMANY gipsy family are celebrating after their long-running battle to remain on land in Checkley ended in success this week. The Price family had been threatened with eviction from their temporary home at Olive Tree Park in Uttoxeter Road last year if they didn’t receive planning permission to set up permanently on the site.

Newport Travellers moved on from Tredegar House

A GROUP of Gypsy travellers were setting up another camp in the city yesterday evening, after being evicted by the council from land at Tredegar House

We do not want these Traveller sites near us - Worcestershire

GREEN belt land, a former school, an old hospital and a farm are among sites earmarked as potential new homes for Gypsies and Travellers in the north of Worcestershire. In total seven sites have been shortlisted from a possible 15 by Wyre Forest District Council’s cabinet.

Gypsy site plan sparks uproar - Kidderminster

A RESIDENTS’ action group has vowed to fight “tooth and nail”
against a former Kidderminster school becoming a Gypsy and Traveller site.
Chairman of Broadwaters Residents Action Group (BRAG), Sarah Rook, said she was “horrified” that the former Sion Hill School site was one of seven potential plots whittled down from 15 by Wyre Forest District Council’s cabinet.

Red alert over Gypsy invasion - Chelmsford

FARMERS, police and council officers are joining forces to stop evicted Gypsies creating a new Dale Farm in Chelmsford.

Luton Travellers are not from Dale Farm

TRAVELLERS who have set up camp on Luton’s Stockwood Park say that they haven’t come from troubled Essex site Dale Farm.
Several national newspapers reported today that the group of travellers, who arrived at the park close to its Farley Hill entrance on Monday evening, had come 55 miles from the illegal site

But The Sun says they have.

Businesses fight plans for Gypsy site in Winsford

BUSINESSES on Winsford Industrial Estate have joined forces to fight council plans for a permanent Gypsy plot at the site entrance.

Cheshire West and Chester Council (CWAC) has identified six potential traveller sites in the borough, including a 10 plot site at the Bostock Road entrance to the town’s industrial estate and 20 pitches on land off Blakeden Land, behind the Cheshire Police Headquarters.

Cornwall Council's £1.5m bid forTraveller camps

Cornwall Council has put in a bid for £1.5m of funding to provide approved Traveller camps in the county.

Dale Farm Travellers set up camp in Luton

Around 20 caravans from the disputed site in Basildon, Essex have pitched up at Stockwood Park in Bedfordshire and it is thought more could be on their way.

The Travellers, who are facing eviction from Dale Farm, have warned that they have nowhere else to go.

Dorset locations earmarked as potential Travellers’ sites to be revealed

RESIDENTS across Dorset are set to learn which spots have been earmarked as potential authorised sites for Travellers.

Nine local councils in Dorset banded together three years ago to spend an estimated £250,000 on tackling the controversial issue by hiring private consultants to look at potential sites.
Baker Associates has now reported back and its findings will become public in the next days or weeks.

Gypsies evicted from Stocklake

TRAVELLERS have been given until midday Wednesday to leave a field in Stocklake after being served an eviction notice.

Romanies A Difficult Decision For Abthorpe And South Northants

A family of Gypsies, or Romanies as they prefer to be known, has lived in our parish for a number of years. In 2010 the family was given permission to live on the site that they own, for a period of three years to allow South Northamptonshire Council time to establish permanent sites for travelling people. Our Parish Council objected to the 2010 application on the grounds that it was a development on a greenfield site that contradicted planning policy. Now, with two years of their temporary permission still to go, the family has submitted another planning application to make the permission permanent and restrict the occupation to Gypsies only.

Dale Farm evictions signal end of Traveller lifestyle, say Gypsies

Localism bill is another nail in their coffin, pushing them unwillingly off campsites into permanent accommodation.

Dale Farm eviction: 'They'll have to take me out in a body-bag' - video

Johnny Howorth follows Candy Sheridan of the Gypsy Council in her attempt to avoid the forceful eviction of 86 traveller families from the Dale Farm site near Basildon in Essex

Lib Dem MP calls for Dale Farm eviction to be halted

LIBERAL Democrat MP Andrew George, the chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on Travellers, said that the Dale Farm eviction should be put on hold.

Dale Farm Gypsy eviction is off ... for now Judge allows Travellers to stay...until Friday

TRAVELLERS facing eviction from barricaded Dale Farm camp won a last-gasp High Court reprieve yesterday — easing fears of a riot.

Uproar at Wyre Forest Travellers' sites meeting

ANGRY hecklers at last night’s meeting about potential Gypsy and Traveller sites in Wyre Forest accused councillors of bringing them there under false pretences.

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Suffolk/Essex: School racism hike blamed on Dale Farm furore

Ormiston Children and Families Trust (OCFT) said hateful views children had picked up at home had found their way onto the playground.

The charity, which works across East Anglia, said the hike in racist incidents had seen travellers families withdraw their children from schools.