National Policy Work
Two very important decisions:
01.11.2022 Lisa Smith -v- The Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Others [2021] EWHC 1650
Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group has for many years challenged the very unsatisfactory historical aspects of G[g]ypsy status ( our brackets)
“personally, I cannot see how any planning authority or planning inspector can conclude that an elderly or disabled Gypsy or Traveller who no longer travels because of their age or disability cannot rely on the positive advice in PPTS 2015.The case also sounds the death knell for local authorities' GTAA's which are based on the discriminatory definition. Surely all those which exclude elderly and disabled Gypsies and Travellers must be revised asap. Marc Willers QC
Please read judgment here
01.11.2022 Lisa Smith -v- The Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Others [2021] EWHC 1650
Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group has for many years challenged the very unsatisfactory historical aspects of G[g]ypsy status ( our brackets)
“personally, I cannot see how any planning authority or planning inspector can conclude that an elderly or disabled Gypsy or Traveller who no longer travels because of their age or disability cannot rely on the positive advice in PPTS 2015.The case also sounds the death knell for local authorities' GTAA's which are based on the discriminatory definition. Surely all those which exclude elderly and disabled Gypsies and Travellers must be revised asap. Marc Willers QC
Please read judgment here
