National Work
Funded by ERGO Network DGLG organised two consultation events in Birmingham to discuss the consultation on the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) - Read the consultation here
It is important that
It is important that
- The Planning Policy for Traveller Sites (PPfTS) to be amended to make it consistent with the new NPPF proposals;
- That the PPfTS should refer to Gypsies and Travellers.
- Gypsy status be amended so that Gypsy people are covered by a policy which was supposed to be for them
- Reintroduction of the local authority duty to provide Gypsy and Traveller sites for social need
- Measures need to be explored to keep land prices down
The Office for National Statistics have today 7.12.2023 published some groundbreaking research into the lived experiences of Gypsies and Travellers in partnership with DGLG. The press release is below. DGLG coordinated this work for community groups across the country to get involved.
The report is here:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/ethnicity/articles/gypsiesandtravellerslivedexperiencesoverviewenglandandwales/2022
The animated summary is here:
https://vimeo.com/778793987/6dc0e70d79
The report is here:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/ethnicity/articles/gypsiesandtravellerslivedexperiencesoverviewenglandandwales/2022
The animated summary is here:
https://vimeo.com/778793987/6dc0e70d79
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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
Wide Injunctions to be challenged in Supreme Court
London Gypsies and Travellers; Friends, Families and Travellers; and Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group -v- Wolverhampton City Council and Others UKSC 2022/0046 ( Community law Partnership)
26.10. 2022. We have along with (LGT) London Gypsies and Travellers (LGT) and Friends Families and Travellers have been granted permission by the Supreme Court to continue the challenge against the use of anti-Traveller ‘wide injunctions’.
Please see press release here https://www.gypsy-traveller.org/news/wide-injunctions-to-be-challenged-in-supreme-court/
Please see relevant documents here and here and here
London Gypsies and Travellers; Friends, Families and Travellers; and Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group -v- Wolverhampton City Council and Others UKSC 2022/0046 ( Community law Partnership)
26.10. 2022. We have along with (LGT) London Gypsies and Travellers (LGT) and Friends Families and Travellers have been granted permission by the Supreme Court to continue the challenge against the use of anti-Traveller ‘wide injunctions’.
Please see press release here https://www.gypsy-traveller.org/news/wide-injunctions-to-be-challenged-in-supreme-court/
Please see relevant documents here and here and here
