Call for Gypsy sites to be deleted from Newport council's local development plan - Wales

From the South Wales Argus

CALLS for five possible Gypsy sites to be deleted from Newport council's local development plan are being considered in a consultation.

Newport council is currently in process of drawing up its local development plan (LDP) that will guide planning in the city until 2026.

It has already completed a consultation on the deposit version of the plan, but as part of that exercise individuals and organisations can submit their own alternative sites.

These can include calls for sites to be added to the plan for housing or other uses, for sites to be altered and sites in the plan to be deleted.

Now a six-week consultation on what has been suggested by residents and others- listed in an alternative sites register - has been opened.

According to the register, calls have been made for allocations for accommodation for Gypsies and Travellers to be deleted at Yew Tree Cottage, Bettws, Queensway Meadows, two former Army sites at Pye Corner in Nash and Pound Hill, in Coedkernew.

All those sites were included in a now-scrapped shortlist of possible sites. The issue is currently being reviewed by a group of councillors.

The council must include transit and permanent Gypsy sites in the LDP as per Welsh Government rules.

According to council documents the authority would need to review all responses and consider the need to make changes to the LDP before the plan is examined by a planning inspector.

Representations have also been made for a site south of Llanwern Steelworks allocated for waste to be deleted from the LDP.

Proposals for an incinerator at the site have failed to get planning permission.