Traveller family 'embedded with community' ask to stay on allotment
The application also claimed that “Kippax has a surplus of green space and more acutely a surplus of allotment land.”
That’s despite councillors being told in 2019 there was a waiting list for allotments in the neighbourhood, when the previous application was rejected. The new proposal also said the two younger children on the site, who are aged five and nine respectively, attend Ash Tree Primary School and that the family “are embedded with the community”.
It added: “Without the provision for pitches within an area they have links and roots to, the reality is that the family will be fully transient and likely to have to pitch up on roadsides.”Although the council does provide a legal 41-plot Traveller site at Cottingley Springs in south Leeds, the application said the family could not live there.
It explained, “The applicant advises he has had previous altercations with other members of the travelling community” and added that “due to these family conflicts, a decision was made a made by the applicant to settle away from the public site at Cottingley Springs, in the interests of his family.”rejected the 2019 application on the grounds the site was difficult for large vehicles to access and that it was designated greenspace.
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