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Cornwall Council is launching a public consultation on how and where residential, transit and Showpeople sites can be provided for Gypsies, Travellers and Travelling Showpeople in Cornwall.The consultation period runs from Monday 25 April until 5pm on Monday 6 June 2016 and will influence the Gypsy and Travelling Communities Site Allocations Development Plan (DPD), to [...]
Thanks to a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), a group of young Gypsies and Travellers in Cornwall will have an opportunity to find out more about their history. With the help of TravellerSpace, working in partnership with the University of Exeter’s Centre for Cornish Studies, the young people will find out about how [...]
Need a pitch on a Council site? Want to buy your own ground? Tired of being always moved on? This is your chance to have your say. Cornwall Council have commissioned an independent assessment of the accommodation needs of Gypsies and Travellers in the county. This piece of work follows on from a flawed assessment [...]
Cornwall Council and Cornwall Housing are proposing to build a 15 pitch transit site at Horningtops near Liskeard.There will be a public consultation period followed by the application going through the normal planning process. A public exhibition will be held in the Long Room, Public Hall, 3-5 West Street, Liskeard PL14 6BW on Thursday 10 April [...]
The Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 becomes law on the 1st October. Damian Le Bas writes about how this will affect Gypsy and Traveller scrap dealersScrap Metal Dealers Act 2013London Gypsy and Traveller Unit have published a useful step by step guide to getting registered (pdf)
What is Hate Crime? A hate incident is any kind of behaviour that causes fear, alarm or distress where the victim or anyone else feels that they have been targeted because of their racial heritage, religion or beliefs, disability, gender identity or sexual orientation. If a criminal offence has been committed a hate incident becomes a [...]
Plans to build a desperately needed transit site in Plymouth have been scrapped, despite having previously getting the
From the Cornish Guardian A GYPSY family has been given the green light to build a home on land near Bugle - more than a decade after they started searching. On Monday Cornwall Council's central sub-area planning committee approved an application for four mobile homes along with three day rooms, reduced from four after local [...]
TravellerSpace present three short films for Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month 2013Tuesday 25thJune 2013 10.30-12pm Redruth Cinema The Road Bends Darren Lee Wilson "A documentary by three members the Gypsy Traveller community, with tales of family upbringing, Appleby, My big fat Gypsy wedding, site evictions, to the cold hard reality of prison life."Our Big Real Gypsy Lives [...]
Cornwall Council are consulting on the Gypsy & Travelling Communities Strategy & Delivery Plan. The Draft Gypsy and Travelling Communities Strategy and Delivery Plan (pdf) provides the evidence base for the Draft Local Plan policy for Gypsies and Travellers. It identifies pitch requirements to 2020; sets out the Council’s priorities for delivery of sites; and [...]
