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ID sylw: 108621

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Kiely Bros Holdings Ltd

Asiant : Pegasus Group

Policy Direction 11 – Meeting the Accommodation Needs of Gypsies, Travellers, Travelling Show people, and Boat Dwellers
5.15.
The Gypsy, Traveller, Travelling Show people and Boat Dwellers Accommodation Assessment (August 2024) identifies a need of between 74 - 89 new permanent Gypsy and Traveller pitches over the plan period. This policy direction suggests that pitches and plots for gypsies and travellers will need to be provided as part of schemes of 500 dwellings or more. The Councils should not rely on potential developments which may or may not come forward to meet the need for pitches – it is imperative for the South Warwickshire Councils to identify the way in which this need will be met, with sufficient deliverable and developable gypsy and traveller sites in the pipeline, as stipulated by the Government’s Planning Policy for Traveller Sites
(updated December 2024). The identification of specific sites for pitches, such as the Croft Farm Site site, would be supported.
5.16.
In addition, as part of large-scale residential schemes, it is important to highlight that the site in question may not be an appropriate or desirable location for a traveller site. As such, if the Councils were to seek to retain this within the policy, some flexibility should be provided, rather than this serving as a blanket requirement. Any schemes which are to accommodate pitches would need to be carefully designed to cater for the needs of both settled and travelling occupiers, with amenity considerations taken into account. Kiely are content that, notwithstanding the need to create a more flexible policy, the Croft Farm Site itself, is of a scale and nature, that this aspect of need, could be accommodated within their site.