Groby Gypsy site meeting to be held this evening - Leicestershire

From the Leicester Mercury

A public meeting has been organised to discuss an application to create a Gypsy caravan site in Groby.

The meeting will be held from 6.45pm today at the Groby community centre in Forest Rise.

Agent Philip Brown has lodged a planning application for a site for four caravans and an amenity building off Wallace Drive.

Mr Brown, of Rugby, said it was a brownfield site and would be screened from the surrounding neighbourhood.

He said the proposal would accommodate two families and each plot would have a mobile home and a touring caravan.

The meeting has been organised by councillors Ozzy O'Shea and Peter Batty, who said access to the site is unsuitable and are concerned the number of caravans would not be restricted to four caravans.