Whitley landowner ‘pulls out of Travellers’ site deal’

CONTROVERSIAL plans to create a new Gypsy and Travellers’ site in a North Yorkshire village may have to be completely rethought.

Selby District Council’s Site Allocations Development Plan Document (SADPD) has been developed to look at areas in the region which could hold 5,000 new homes and business developments over the next 15 years.
Among the developments the council wish to create is a ten-pitch Gypsy and Traveller site on land at Poplar Farm in Whitley, which was named as the council’s preferred option in September.
Yesterday, it was suggested that the landowner had withdrawn the land from consideration for the development, eight weeks into a ten-week public consultation, although the council could not confirm this.