ABSTRACT
Mrs Buckley is a Gypsy; shortly before the birth of her third child in 1988, she abandoned her itinerant life and moved her three caravans onto a plot of land which she owned in the district of South Cambridgeshire. Planning permission for caravans on this site was refused in 1989, and the Council began enforcement proceedings in 1990. Mrs Buckley’s appeal against the notice was unsuccessful. The Inspector was conscious that the site posed road safety hazards and that it intruded into open countryside, contrary to the aim of the structure plan. These and other objections outweighed the need for more authorised sites for gypsy accommodation; and the Secretary of State accepted the Inspector’s recommendation to dismiss the appeal.
