Response to inaccurate claims that planning reforms will lead to more unauthorised Traveller sites
Bob Neill responds to inaccurate claims that planning reforms will lead to more unauthorised traveller sites. Bob Neill, Minister for Local…
Bob Neill responds to inaccurate claims that planning reforms will lead to more unauthorised traveller sites.
Bob Neill, Minister for Local Government, said:
Top-down targets for traveller sites undermined local discretion and turned a blind eye to unauthorised development, harming community cohesion. The Coalition Government is scrapping the previous Government’s planning rules on traveller sites and issuing explicit new planning guidance which increases protection of the Green Belt and open countryside. Stronger weight is being given to protection of local amenity and the local environment. And through the Localism Bill, councils are being given tougher enforcement powers to tackle the abuse of the system.
Bob Neill MP