Wyke Area Committee and traveller stopping places

John Fareham and John Abbott have secured a recommendation that any proposed temporary stopping place for travellers will not be situated either in Bricknell Ward or in any other ward in Wyke Area. We were able to point out to the July meeting of Wyke Area Committee, wholly accurately as it happens, that every unallocated piece of open land was earmarked for housing, leaving none to spare for travellers. Neither Avenue nor Newland ward can spare any land for this purpose either, so if the corporate centre want a site for a stopping-off place for travellers, which is an idea former Police Commissioner Matthew Grove advocated, they will have to look elsewhere.