Traveller site bid kicked out - Brentwood

THE Government has ruled a Travellers’ site cannot be established in Brentwood, even though planning inspectors gave it the go ahead. In April 2009, Brentwood Council refused planning permission for six residential Gypsy pitches with hardstanding, amenity areas, day rooms and stabling for horses at Oak Tree Farm, in Chelmsford Road, Blackmore. However, at an appeal in October 2009 and January and February last year, planning inspector Richard Clegg said the Travellers, who own the site, should be allowed to stay.