From This is Cornwall: YOUTH football matches had to be cancelled on Sunday after a family of Travellers moved on to a recently revamped pitch. […]
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Gypsies and Travellers: camp sites and trespass – Commons Library Standard Note
New House of Commons summary of the law regarding unauthorised sites. The full report can be read here (pdf) Gypsies and Travellers: camp sites and […]
Media Student’s Film About New Cornwall Sites
Falmouth journalism student Patrick Clahane has made a short film about Cornwall’s proposed new sites.Gypsies from Patrick Clahane on Vimeo.
Travellers row in village – Coverack
The Travellers in Coverack have been working with the council for some years now to try and find a more suitable site. The claim that […]
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Bill House of Lords Committee Stage
If brought into force the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill will have disastrous effects on the provision of advice and representation to […]
Pitchforks and Flaming Torches
Cornwall Council’s successful bid to the Homes and Communities Agency Traveller Pitch Funding Programme was very welcome news and a big step forward for Cornwall’s […]
New Pitches For Cornwall and Devon
From the BBC – More Traveller sites are to be set up in the South West. It comes after UK councils were invited to bid […]
What the Localism Act 2011 Means for Gypsies and Travellers
UPDATE 30/03/12 – From Chris Johnson of the Community Law Partnership “The new law with regard to retrospective planning applications is to come into force […]
Lord Avebury Calls For the Return of the Caravan Sites Act
Forty three years after the groundbreaking 1968 Caravan Sites Bill Lord Avebury is to introduce a new Caravan Sites Bill to Parliament. The Bill, drafted […]
Exeter Gypsies Let Down By Council
Plans for two Gypsy sites in Exeter have been abandoned by the city council. The proposed sites, at Monkerton and New Court, will be “released […]