Swaffham Prior Village Hall housed a packed Community Meeting on 13 July to discuss the proposal in East Cambridgeshire District Council's "Site Allocations Options Paper" for a permanent Gypsy and Traveller site in Swaffham Prior. The proposed site, next to Goodwin Farm, Heath Road and near the junction with Mill Hill (B1102), would contain 6 large pitches, each accommodating 3 caravans, a brick-built dayroom and parking/garden space.
After the meeting, we discovered that there were not one but TWO documents relating to this proposal on the ECDC web-site and TWO questionnaires that needed to be completed.
The first document ("Site Allocations Options Paper") is the one discussed at the Community Meeting. It describes the proposals and the associated questionnaire asked if you agreed with the proposal.
The second document ("Initial Sustainability Appraisal - Site Allocations Options Document") describes how ECDC came to the conclusion that Swaffham Prior was a good (or in their words, sustainable) site for Gypsy and Traveller Pitches and makes interesting reading. The questionnaire that went with this document asked for comments on it.
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