From Get Bucks
Another potential Traveller site has been identified after land owners put it forward in a public consultation.
Parish councillors discussed the land next to Misbourne Farm, in London Road, Chalfont St Giles, last night (Wednesday), which was put forward during the Chiltern District Council (CDC) consultation on Gypsy, Travellers and travelling Showpeople’s sites.
It has been nominated as a travelling Showpeople’s site and joins the village’s other potential site – south of Top Farm in The Lagger – to be considered in the consultation, which earmarks 12 locations across Chilterns for development. Now the first consultation deadline has passed, people await the next stage of public participation early next year.
Parish council chairman Bill Warren has concerns over flooding problems on the new site and does not think it is suitable for development.
He said: “We do not have much bite on this one because it is a district council decision. It is out of our hands and into someone else’s hands now.
“Alarm bells are ringing all around as a result of Top Farm and we are tentatively awaiting the result.”
More than 1,000 submissions were made to CDC after it asked people for feedback over the suggestions, with villagers in Chalfont St Giles strongly opposed to the green belt land, at Top Farm, being developed.
The government directive asks local authorities from across England and Wales to find new sites.
Results from this public participation, and an earlier one from April to June, will form a report which will be considered at the council’s housing and planning overview committee on December 11 and the cabinet on December 17.
The council aims to go to a formal six-week public consultation on its delivery development plan document, which includes Gypsy, Travellers and Showpeople’s site options.
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