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Travellers' rights on caravan sites Letter from the President of the Country Land & Business Association to The Times, 9 October 2004.
Sir, Simon Jenkins (Comment, October 1) suggests that in the Chichester travellers' case the Court of Appeal held that there is a ' 'human right' to planning permission if you own a caravan'. There is no such right, and no new precedent has been set. There is only the failure of a particular local authority to comply with national planning policies. When in 1994 the then Government abolished the local authority's duty to provide sites for travellers, it was on the understanding that authorities would comply with policies requiring them to identify sites where applications for gypsy sites, should there be any, would be viewed sympathetically. If no such sites could be identified, the local authority was to set objective criteria against which applications could be considered. If a group of travellers arrived in a locality, the local authority only had to show that it had complied with the policy and the travellers would either be directed to the site or moved on. This approach was welcomed both by the majority of local authorities and landowners. Unfortunately some local authorities, including, it would seem, Chichester District Council, chose simply to ignore the policy. It failed either to provide sites or to give proper consideration to what it would do if a group of travellers arrived. As such, the council has only itself to blame that somebody else, in the form of the courts, has made the decision for it. Yours, MARK HUDSON, President, Country Land and Business Association, 16 Belgrave Square, SW1X 8PQ. |
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Christopher Price is the Director Policy and Advice at the CLA. He has overall responsibility for managing all the CLA's national policy and advisory work. He makes sure that the organisation's policy work is focused on what matters most, and that members' queries are dealt with accurately and efficiently. A planning and environmental lawyer by background, he joined the CLA as public law adviser in 2002. He became Chief Legal Advisor in 2007 and took up his current post a year later. Before coming to the CLA Christopher worked in local government for a number of different authorities.
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