| Gypsies Plan Permanant Site |
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| Written by Kirklees Trader | |
GYPSIES are planning to set up 2 permanent sites in Huddersfield and have submitted planning applications for both sites.They are requesting 35 famalies to have a permanant site at Leeds Road where the Community farm was based. A second smaller site for 12 famalies at Springwood.
The Wetherby-based Gypsy Council, known as Romani Kris, made the applications which are only in their initial stages. President Hughie Smith said: "We're confident we will get sites in Kirklees." 
"We're confident we will get sites in Kirklees." 
"It's unfortunate that leading councillors are bitterly opposed to the provision of sites, but they don't talk to us. "At the end of the day we're confident we can get permission." He said Kirklees had a policy of 'hounding out gypsies', but there was a 'long-standing history of gypsy accommodation in Huddersfield'. He added: "What I can't understand is the opposition by what I have unfortunately come to call vote-catching councillors." "They seem to think all the settled community are against the sites - and they're not. "They'd rather see gypsies on legal sites rather than illegal ones." Mr Smith said Kirklees had a legal obligation to provide accommodation for gypsy families. He added: "Families are being hounded out of the area. Clr Robert Light, the leader of the council, has recently gone on record as saying there would be no sites in Huddersfield when there's a Conservative administration.
there would be no sites in Huddersfield when there's a Conservative administration.
The main problem residents seem to have about the permanant gypsy sites are. Increased waste, crime and the fact that they seemingly take but put nothing back into the community. | |
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