Section: Travellers and Gypsies

Gypsy families must move after Green Belt policy prevails

Posted 13.06.17
Batchelors Solicitors: Article link

Gypsy encampments are often unpopular with locals, but members of the travelling community have the same rights as everyone else and need somewhere to live.

In one case, however, the High Court ruled that the need to preserve the Green Belt took priority and ordered a group of 13 families off a rural site.

This short report on the website of Batchelors Solicitors summarises the case.

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