Travellers' site set for Great Dorset Steam Fair (From Dorset Echo)

Travellers' site set for Great Dorset Steam Fair

7:10pm Friday 6th February 2009 in

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A transit site will be provided for gypsies and travellers at the Great Dorset Stream Fair this summer.

Cabinet members agreed to use the gypsy transit site – between the villages of Tarrant Hinton and Tarrant Launceston – used in 2007 and 2008. Providing that the council obtains planning permission they now seek to agree a three-year deal with the land-owner.

The provision will cost nearly £20,000 each year but in the past the steam fair has contributed half.

The council said that in the four years where a gypsy transfer site has been provided it resulted in a dramatic reduction in unauthorised camping and complaints of anti-social behaviour.