Usk Gypsy site gets the go-ahead on appeal - South Wales

A FAMILY of Travellers will be allowed to move onto a field in Monmouthshire, after they won an appeal.
The land, south of Upper Maerdy Farm, Llangeview, will now become a permanent home for Star Lea and her extended family, subject to conditions.

She had appealed to The Planning Inspectorate, as Monmouthshire council refused plans for four mobile homes, four touring caravans, four untility dayroom blocks and to retain an existing railway carriage.
The plans were downsized, and this satisfied planning inspector Hywel Wyn Jones.
Two caravans used for residential purposes, a portacabin used as an amenity block and hardstandings will be allowed, following the conclusion of a four day inquiry into the matter.
The report by Mr Wyn Jones said: "The available evidence leads me to find there is a modest need for a Gypsy and Traveller site in the area."
Mrs Lea, who bought the land in Llangeview, told the inquiry in September that she had waited three years to turn it into a traveller's site.
She said that although she lives in a house in Pontypool, she longed to return to her Gypsy roots in a caravan being looked after by her family, which is their tradition.