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Travellers: Caravan Sites

Commons · Question 13244 · Tabled 8 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 18 Nov 2024

Question

Asked by Kim Johnson

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to protect the Tara Park Traveller site in Liverpool; if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the consultation with the residents of that site

Answer

Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 18 Nov 2024

I am unable to comment on individual planning cases because of the departments quasi-judicial role in the planning system.However, planning policy is clear that, in respect of Traveller sites, it is for elected local authorities to make their own assessme...