A farm owner in Ardens Rise, St Albans, has launched a battle to be allowed to continue to host three caravan pitches on his land.
Michael Connors has found the local council unwilling to extend the permission for his gypsy caravan site as it is challenging the government over how many pitches it is expected to have in the area, the St Albans & Harpenden Review reported.
A public inquiry into Mr Connors’ complaint has begun and an argument was put forward by Sandridge parish councillor Geoff Churchard, who said that the St Albans area is expected to take on an unfair allocation of gypsy and traveller caravans.
“Back in 1980 we became the first district council to allocate places for gipsies and travellers,” the newspaper reported him as saying.
As such, the council now feels that it is still expected to site a disproportionate number of travellers in comparison to other areas, he added.
In other news, the Herald Express recently revealed that the green light has been given on a £2.5 million investment into a Devon caravan park.
The Haulfryn Group will build over 100 timber-clad static caravans in Paignton as part of a project to develop the area’s caravan holiday parks. It has been said the new development will create 24 full-time and 20 part-time jobs.
