Comment
Development and Site Allocations (DaSA) Local Plan - Options and Preferred Options
Representation ID: 23779
Received: 20/02/2017
Respondent: East Sussex County Council
Traveller Liaison Team
Page 346 17.17: "a nine pitch transit site with a resident site manager". This point is not correct as there is no longer a resident site manager. Although a site manager attends regularly (Monday-Friday).
We agree that it does meet current transit provision, but we are not always able to move large encampments to this transit site as there are only nine pitches.
The team are currently looking into the possibility of extending the site making it 10 pitches.
For Information-we currently have 23 applications on our waiting list for a pitch on a permanent site (Maresfield/Polegate/Robertsbridge/Hailsham).
Traveller Liaison Team
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Page 346 17.17: "a nine pitch transit site with a resident site manager". This point is not correct. There is not a resident site manager. There is a site manager that attends regularly to that site during Monday-Friday. He also attends East Sussex County Councils four other permanent sites during this period too.
We agree that it does meet current transit provision, but we are not always able to move large encampments to this transit site as there are only nine pitches. This does limit the use of Section 62A which gives the police power to move an encampment onto the site.
The team are currently looking in to the possibility of extending the current site making it a 10 pitch site. In order to do this the current large static van (old site manager's residence) will need to be removed
For Information - we currently have 23 applications on our waiting list for a permanent site at our four permanent sites of Maresfield, Polegate, Robertsbridge and Hailsham.