All proposed sites should conform to planning controls. The planning department are known to be delaying current evictions in the hope they may be suitable for approval .
Where gypsy and traveller sites have already been served eviction notices on planning grounds, highway safety and illegal occupation being cited,
the temptation to ignore the results of legal process and designate such sites as appropriate simply for administration convenience must be resisted.
Vehicle entrance and exit movements from an illegal site at the A 1245 dual carriageway for example are dangerous to the occupants and more so to other road users. Local residents have been told that if this site was put forward as a housing development, it would be refused on planning grounds