Gypsy site plan is slated for refusal - Malvern

A CONTROVERSIAL planning application for a gipsy site in a hamlet between Malvern and Powick looks set to be refused. The application, for land at Bastonford, is for a site with parking for five touring caravans.

Potential Traveller sites revealed for Bournemouth

FOUR potential locations for Gypsy and Traveller sites have been earmarked in Bournemouth, the Daily Echo can reveal. Three of them are on green belt land.
The suggestions, drawn up by consultants Baker Associates, are

• 10 transit pitches off Park Road, Lansdowne (bordering the Wessex Way and public car park off Lansdowne Road)
• three residential pitches near Erlin Farm, Muscliffe Lane,
• five residential pitches off Careys Road, off Broadway Lane
• eight residential pitches on the edge of urban development at Throop Road, between Woodbury Avenue and the allotments.

BRIDPORT: Concerns over Gypsy site plans

A LEADING town and county councillor fears that Bridport could soon be faced with its own “Dale Farm” if plans for proposed Gypsy and Traveller sites get the go ahead.

Planners to look at controversial Gypsy camp plan - Ewloe ,Wales

A CONTROVERSIAL gipsy camp will be discussed by county planners next month.
Hundreds of people have already voiced their opposition to plans for a five-caravan site on land off Magazine Lane, Ewloe Green.

Residents fight Davenham Gypsy site plans

RESIDENTS are gearing up to fight a proposed gipsy site in Davenham. The application is for a change of use from stables to a residential caravan site for two gipsy families with four caravans, including two mobile homes, and two small wooden sheds.

£45k to tell Gypsies ‘don’t eat horses’

WHITEHALL chiefs paid a PR firm £45,000 to teach Gypsies about an EU rule asking people to promise not to EAT their horses.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs gave the cash to Linstock Communications to "raise awareness" among travellers of the bizarre Brussels law change.
Under the move, owners had to sign a legal document promising not to dine on their animals. Refusal meant jail or an unlimited fine. Labour feared Gypsies would not know about the change.

Paddy Doherty's son's attempted murder trial is dropped

The son of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding star Paddy Doherty has walked free from an attempted murder charge.
David Doherty, 26, known as “Steak Pudding” to Travellers, ­allegedly drove over the legs of Thomas Ward, 36, then fired a shotgun at him.

Blackburn Gypsy site extension rejected

PLANS to extend a controversial Gypsy site in Blackburn have been rejected by council planning bosses.
Jimmy Evans had applied for consent to retain five caravans, a chalet, an amenity block, and a WC building, on a former coal merchant’s site at the rear of Vincent Street, Ewood.

Cheshire East Council looking for more sites for Gypsies and Travellers in the borough

CHESHIRE East Council is looking for permanent sites to accommodate Gypsies and Travellers.

Family celebrates as inspector gives caravan go-ahead - Uttoxeter

A ROMANY gipsy family are celebrating after their long-running battle to remain on land in Checkley ended in success this week. The Price family had been threatened with eviction from their temporary home at Olive Tree Park in Uttoxeter Road last year if they didn’t receive planning permission to set up permanently on the site.