Astonishing Janus act on Gypsies and Travellers
At this week’s ‘Planning and External Relations’ Cabinet Panel, the members were unanimous in favour of rejecting the recommendatiojns from EERA on the grounds that they are arbitrary, ill-thought through and not in the interests of either the settled or the traveller communities. In particular the idea that every district regardless of size and greenbelt should take 15 pitches was dismissed as a nonsense. The Tory chair of the Panel has agreed to write a very strong letter. Which is interesting since he was the chair of the EERA Panel which originally came up with the proposals - and he refused to back me and my Lib Dem colleagues when we proposed that these crazy proposals be withdrawn.
His letter to EERA will make interesting reading!
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