Wiltshire Council is currently preparing a Gypsies and Travellers Development Plan Document (DPD) that will address the accommodation needs of travellers, with both permanent sites for new pitches and temporary sites for emergency stopping. It will update policy in the current Local Plan and once adopted will be used to determine planning applications.

As part of the review of the review, they are reopening the ‘call for sites’ for land that could be assessed in more detail as part of plan development. They would be interested to hear from you if you know of any land that could be suitable as a traveller site within your parish. Or might there be land in your ownership that you wish to put forward? Securing land that is proposed by communities tends to reduce tension with local residents as the Development Plan Document progresses towards adoption and is therefore an important part of the process.

See the notice here for more information.