Policy information sourced from the Hounslow Local Plan Part 1
SC9 - GYPSY AND TRAVELLER AND TRAVELLING SHOWPEOPLE
Our approach
We will give careful consideration to the needs of Gypsies, Travellers and Travelling Showpeople and provide appropriate accommodation where it meets an identified need and will fully satisfy the criteria in this policy.
We will achieve this by
- Safeguarding the borough’s authorised Gypsy and Traveller site in Cranford known as ‘The Hartlands’. This allocation provides sufficient capacity to expand to accommodate anticipated future need;
- Considering proposals for additional pitches on alternative sites where there is an identified unmet need and the use of the site would have no serious adverse impact on the amenity of occupiers of adjoining land, and no serious adverse impact on the visual amenity of the locality; and
- Ensuring that additional pitches can be supported by adequate social infrastructure in the locality.
We will expect development proposals to
- Ensure proposals for additional pitches have good and safe access from the road network, with adequate turning space for vehicles and no adverse impacts on traffic movements in the locality; and
- Ensure the proposed pitch provision is for an appropriate layout in terms of pitches, amenity buildings, employment space, hardstanding, open space and landscaping.
For more information please see the Hounslow Local Plan Part 1