Unauthorised traveller encampments
Case reference FOI2020/00087
Published 11 March 2020
Request
Please provide the following information in the form of an Excel document if you can. 1: A yearly breakdown from 1st January 2015 to 31st December 2019 of the number of additional sites built for Gypsies and travellers in your area. 2: Does your authority have a Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Need Assessment for new pitches? 3: What is the need identified by your authority's Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Need Assessment for new pitches, and what period does this GTANA cover? 4: How many sites have been identified by your authority for its up to date 5 year 'supply of specific deliverable sites'? 5: A yearly breakdown from 1st January 2015 to 31st December 2019 of many times you have obtained injunctions preventing unauthorised camping.
Response
1: A yearly breakdown from 1st January 2015 to 31st December 2019 of the number of additional sites built for Gypsies and travellers in your area.
2015: 6 pitches at Ash Bridge
2016: None
2017: 6 pitches at Calvert Road
2018: None
2019: None
2: Does your authority have a Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Need Assessment for new pitches?
Yes. Please see Guildford borough Traveller Accommodation Assessment, 2017 accessed at: https://www.guildford.gov.uk/newlocalplan/media/26579/GBC-Traveller-Accommodation-Assessment-2017/pdf/GBC_Traveller_Accommodation_Assessment_2017.pdf
3: What is the need identified by your authority's Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Need Assessment for new pitches, and what period does this GTANA cover?
For the projection of additional pitch (and plots) needed within Guildford borough 2017-2034 to meet the needs of Gypsies, Travellers and Travelling Showpeople meeting Planning Policy for Traveller Sites (PPTS) definition, please Table 16, page 43 of Guildford borough Traveller Accommodation Assessment, 2017 accessed at:
https://www.guildford.gov.uk/newlocalplan/media/26579/GBC-Traveller-Accommodation-Assessment-2017/pdf/GBC_Traveller_Accommodation_Assessment_2017.pdf.
For the projection of additional pitch (and plots) needed within Guildford borough 2017-2034 to meet the needs of households who do not meet the PPTS definition of a traveller and households of unknown planning traveller status, please see Table 17, page 43 of Guildford borough Traveller Accommodation Assessment, 2017 accessed at:
https://www.guildford.gov.uk/newlocalplan/media/26579/GBC-Traveller-Accommodation-Assessment-2017/pdf/GBC_Traveller_Accommodation_Assessment_2017.pdf
4: How many sites have been identified by your authority for its up to date 5 year 'supply of specific deliverable sites'?
Please see "meeting need" section (page 514-516) and in particular "Supply and trajectory" (page 515-516) of Appendix 6: Traveller and Travelling Showpeople Accommodation, Guildford Borough Council 2019 of the Land availability Assessment accessed at:
https://www.guildford.gov.uk/media/30962/Appendix-6-Traveller-and-Travelling-Showpeople-Accommodation/pdf/Appendix_6_-_Traveller_and_Travelling_Showpeople_Accommodation.pdf?m=637080220629230000
5: A yearly breakdown from 1st January 2015 to 31st December 2019 of many times you have obtained injunctions preventing unauthorised camping.
On the basis that we have interpreted "injunctions" in this case to mean those which have gone to court, please see figures below.
2013 - 1
2014 - 0
2015 - 0
2016 - 4
2017 - 8
2018 - 7
Documents
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