Travellers’ appeal for home rejected - London

From the Enfield Times

THE government has quashed an appeal from a Traveller family to set up a permanent home in the green belt in North Enfield.

Traveller Jim Lavin first submitted a planning bid to Enfield Council in 2012 to use a piece of abandoned land beside Durwen Nursery, in Tingeys Top Lane, Crews Hill, as a permanent site for three static caravans, a utility building, a septic tank and fencing.

The site had been developed previously, but is situated on green belt land. The bid was rejected by the council’s planning committee in March last year and the travellers decided to appeal against the decision to the planning inspectorate.

However, that appeal has now been rejected on the grounds that the development would harm the green belt site.

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