Policy information sourced from the Brent Local Plan

BH9: Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation

The existing Lynton Close travellers’ site will be retained and reconfigured to maximise the number of pitches available, as well as being brought up to a standard that allows for it to meet its existing residents’ needs unless evidence shows it is no longer needed.

The council will seek to accommodate the identified needs for any additional pitches in the latest available gypsy and travellers needs study.

Any new gypsy and travellers’ sites should:

  • Meet a Brent derived need for such accommodation;
  • Be located on a site and in an area both environmentally acceptable for residential occupation forming part of a balanced and mixed community, and suitable where required for the undertaking of occupants’ employment and entrepreneurial activities without detriment to adjacent occupiers’ amenity;
  • Have acceptable accessibility by road users and pedestrians and to local services and public transport; and
  • Be laid out and incorporate boundary treatments that seek to positively integrate with the adjacent townscape/ communities.

For more information please see the Brent Local Plan