Tories Plan to Combat Travellers’ Exploitation of Planning Rules
February 15, 2010 · Posted in Conservative Party · Comment
A commitment to cheer.
For too long a small minority of travellers and squatters have been given the green light to exploit the rules and occupy illegal or unauthorised sites, which are often on Green Belt land.
Amongst the proposals are:
- a new criminal offence of intentional trespass
- curtail the ability to apply for retrospective planning permission
- scrapping of Prescott’s John Prescott’s Whitehall planning rules compelling councils to build traveller camps on the Green Belt and compulsory purchase people’s land to find sites.
