Travellers: Caravan Sites
Commons · Question 120665 · Tabled 13 Mar 2026 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 23 Mar 2026
Question
Asked by Sir Ashley Fox
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to require that, once an eviction notice has been served to a traveller encampment, the same group cann
Answer
Answered by Sarah Jones, 23 Mar 2026
Planning policy is clear that local authorities should assess the need for traveller sites in their area, and then plan to meet that need, in the same way they plan for all forms of housing.The Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government recent...