Object

Representation ID: 7134

Received: 09/09/2009

Respondent: Warwickshire County Council - Environment & Economy Directorate

We feel that the wording around Gypsy and Traveller sites in Section 15 is non committal and is required to be more robust. The criteria based option for gypsy and travellers could make it impossible for a site to be provided especially when consideration is given to noise and nuisance. There is always the possibility of questions being asked as to whether this would be the same for affordable housing of the settled community. It could be difficult to decide on the measurement of this and by whom and this criteria could be challenged in a court of law and potentially found to be unsound. Government guidance is to avoid just a criteria based approach to allocations.

Consideration should also be given to identifying areas of land and acknowledgement given to the fact that this will need to be provided by January 2013.