From the Cambrian News
A GYPSY family will now be able to stay at a site near Lampeter permanently after an inspector overturned a council decision to restrict the occupancy to 10 years.
An application for residential caravans to be stationed at Maes Lletty Cybi in Llangybi was approved in 2010 by the county council’s planning committee despite widespread objections from nearby residents.
It was approved with conditions on development of the site including it only being used by the immediate family of the applicant, Anya Houghton, and the permission only lasting a decade.
In June, Mrs Houghton asked for the removal of the conditions, but the application was turned down by the planning committee in June last year.
However, those conditions have now been overturned by the Planning Inspectorate following an appeal and Mrs Houghton, her partner and five children will be allowed to stay on the site permanently.
Inspector Alwyn Nixon found that he saw “no need or reasonable justification” for the council’s decision to refuse an application and impose conditions on the site, labelling it “onerous”.
“My conclusion,” he said, “is that the permission granted in this case should not be limited to a temporary period.
“A less restrictive condition limiting occupancy of the site to Gypsies and Travellers is all that is necessary in this case.”
The original application in 2010 for the family to live on the land, which they have owned and camped on for 20 years, caused uproar in the village with nearly 100 objectors claiming it would become an uncontrolled Travellers ‘site’.
Despite saying they had “nothing against” the family in question, villagers feared it would lead to large numbers of Travellers turning up and causing havoc.
Mrs Houghton said her family have settled into the community, with children all doing well in local schools.
She said that they simply want the stability of somewhere to call home while the children are in education.
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