We’re acting to resolve āadverse impactā of unauthorised Ashbourne Traveller site
Derbyshire Dales District Council is acting to resolve the “adverse impact” of the unauthorised Traveller encampment on land it owns in Ashbourne’s Clifton Road coach park – but the leadership has expressed its disappointment at Derbyshire County Council’s unwillingness to help.
A special meeting of the District Council’s Community and Environment Committee voted last night (Thursday 11th December) to agree in principle to identify a temporary site for occupation by the named Travellers – to whom the authority owes a legal homelessness obligation – at the Councilās Depot in Mayfield Road, Ashbourne.
After the meeting, the District Council’s leadership issued a statement claiming the County Council was being “unreasonable” in not agreeing to release approved land it owns with previous planning consent for a Traveller site on Watery Lane in Ashbourne.
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