Travellers seek permanent village home - East Yorkshire

Planners are recommending refusal of plans for a permanent home for a family of Irish Travellers in East Yorkshire which villagers fear could become another Dale Farm. There has been concern ever since the family set up camp on the outskirts of Keyingham last September after buying the land. The following month they put in an application for retrospective planning permission. The Travellers, who built a hard-standing area for their caravans on the weekend they moved in, are now seeking approval for “continued use of land as a residential gipsy site” at a meeting at County Hall in Beverley next week. As well as having four caravans, they are also seeking permission to build a toilet block and sewage treatment plant. Some residents say they feel intimidated when they pass the site and fear granting planning permission will set a precedent for more Travellers to come to the village, the family reportedly having bought enough land for 200 caravans.