Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of acronyms
- Dedication
- one Introduction
- two Past and present law
- three The costs to local authorities
- four The costs to others
- five Best Value
- six Rights, race relations and Best Value
- seven Conclusion: obstacles and opportunities
- References
- Appendices
- Index
- Also available from The Policy Press
D - 1992 consultation paper on reform of the 1968 Caravan Sites Act, and excerpts of some responses to the consultation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of acronyms
- Dedication
- one Introduction
- two Past and present law
- three The costs to local authorities
- four The costs to others
- five Best Value
- six Rights, race relations and Best Value
- seven Conclusion: obstacles and opportunities
- References
- Appendices
- Index
- Also available from The Policy Press
Summary
On 18 August 1992, the Homelessness Policy Division of the Department of the Environment issued a letter in which comments were invited on an enclosed consultation paper by 13 November 1992. A separate but parallel consultation was simultaneously undertaken in Wales by the Welsh Office.
The paper was stated in the letter to contain:
… proposals for reform in relation to the use of land by gypsies and other travellers in England and Wales. (As the paper says, the proposals are not directed at travelling showpeople.) The proposals in the enclosed paper entail improved powers for local authorities to move from land all illegal campers; encouraging gypsies and other travellers to move into more permanent housing; and putting gypsies on an equal footing within the planning system with anyone else who needs planning permission.
The letter added that: “Paragraph 25 of the enclosed paper refers to Ministers’ intention that Exchequer grant to cover the capital costs of providing gypsy caravan sites should cease to be payable generally. I am writing separately today to every local authority in England to set out the factors which the Secretary of State will take into account in considering future applications for grant from authorities”.
What follows is the text of the consultation paper, and some of the responses to it. The text of the paper is in normal print, whereas some of the comments sent to the government during the consultation period have been interspersed and are given in boxes with author name(s) in brackets. Some of the formatting of the consultation paper has been changed to avoid confusion, but the text remains exactly as in the original:
Reform of the 1968 Caravan Sites Act
1 The Conservative Manifesto 1992 noted that illegal camping by gypsies and other travellers could affect the lives of whole communities. It contained an undertaking to review the Caravan Sites Act 1968 with the aim of reducing the nuisance of illegal encampments. This consultation paper invites views on the Government's proposals for reform.
The Conservatives 1992 election manifesto gave an undertaking to review the 1968 Caravan Sites Act with the aim of reducing the nuisance of illegal encampments. However, the proposals they are instead putting forward will undoubtedly increase the number of Travellers forced to camp illegally. (Liberty [National Council for Civil Liberties])
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- At What Cost?The Economics of Gypsy and Traveller Encampments, pp. 121 - 138Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2002