Submissions still flooding in over plans to house Gypsies - Buckinghamshire

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People’s responses are still being processed in the consultation over 12 locations across Chilterns marked to house Gypsies, Travellers or travelling Showpeople

More than 1,000 submissions have been made to Chiltern District Council over potential Traveller sites.

People’s responses are still being processed in the consultation over 12 locations across Chilterns marked to house Gypsies, Travellers or travelling showpeople.

The consultation deadline on Monday marked the next stage of deciding where the sites will go. Results from this public participation and an earlier one from April to June will form a report which the council’s housing and planning overview committee will consider on December 11 and the cabinet on December 17.

The council aims to go to a formal six-week public consultation on the plan which includes Gypsy, Travellers and Showpeople’s site options early next year.

A spokesperson said: “This consultation will provide members of the public and other stakeholders a further opportunity to comment. Responses will be put to a government-appointed inspector during the examination of the plan. It will contain detailed development management policies, site allocations and land use designations. The examination in public is to run from May to October 2014, with adoption by December 2014.”