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Call for Traveller Sites

Call for sites for Gypsies, Travellers and Travelling show people

Herefordshire Council is preparing a Local Plan 2021-2041. This plan will identify sites to meet the requirement for pitches and plots for gypsies, travellers and travelling show people over that time scale. Our latest evidence tells us that we will need at least 35 pitches for gypsies and travellers, and 9 additional travelling show people plots.  This is set in our in the latest Herefordshire Gypsy and Travellers Accommodation Assessment (GTAA). We are therefore interested in hearing about any sites that may be suitable as the following:

Residential pitches: 

A residential pitch is an area of land where a single Traveller household can reside.  Pitches vary in size but typically will have space for an amenity building, a parking space, a hardstanding and for one or more caravan.

Travelling Show People Plots:

A plot is an area of land where Travelling Showpeople can live but which also has enough space to allow storage and maintenance of equipment. These sites are sometimes known as Winter Quarters.

Temporary Stopping Places/ Negotiated Stopping places:

Area of land where travellers can stop for a short period of time and where temporary sanitation and waste disposal facilities can be brought in.

We are interested to hear about new sites, extensions to existing sites or increases the number of pitches/plots within existing sites.  We will carry out an assessment of all sites sent in to see if they are suitable for development for traveller pitches. 

 

Confidentiality: 

  • We will not publish any of your personal details or say who sent the information in.


  • We will not publish any information about your site suggestions until we have informed you of the results of our assessments.  You have the right to withdraw your site from consideration at any time.  


How to complete the Call for Sites form:

  • Please provide as much information as you can in the table about your suggested site. This will help us consider the suitability of the site.

 

  • If you are sending us details of more than one site, please use a separate form for each site.  

 

  • Please provide a map showing the location and boundaries of the site. 

 

  • Please highlight the proposed site in red, including all land required for access, landscaping, etc. If you own adjacent land please also edge this in blue.

 

  • Please supply as much information as you can about the site. 

 

We are happy to help with any questions that you may have about this.  You are welcome to contact us if you would like to discuss a site informally and in confidence, before deciding whether to send in any details about it.

Please contact a member of the planning policy team by telephone on 01432 383637 or by email at ldf@herefordshire.gov.uk for any advice and help on this issue.

Completed forms should be returned by email to: ldf@herefordshire.gov.uk

Or by post to:

Planning Policy Team

Herefordshire Council

Plough Lane

HR4 0LE

Check out the following documents

Gypsies, Travellers and Travelling show people - Call for sites form (word).docx
Gypsies, Travellers and Travelling show people - Call for sites form (word).docx
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