Thursday 6 June 2013

Travellers can apply to use site for camp - Hampshire

From the Daily Echo

TRAVELLERS who set up camp on land in Fordingbridge have until Tuesday to apply for planning permission to use the site permanently.


One of the caravan dwellers who started living on the land off Marl Lane is believed to own it.

The land is currently designated for use as “agricultural land in the open countryside”, and any application would have to change its use before people could stay there permanently.

A spokesman for New Forest District Council said: “We have been closely monitoring the unauthorised Traveller caravan site at Marl Lane and understand that the land is owned by an occupier of the site, which is currently agricultural land in the open countryside.

“We wrote to the Travellers and their agent giving them the option to submit a planning application to us should they wish to change the use of the land.

“This does not mean that planning permission would be granted and other enforcement action may be considered in due course.”

The group is within their ownership rights to stay for a month, but at that point they are supposed to put in their planning application.

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