Gypsy, Traveller, Traveling Showpeople evidence
Call for Sites for Gypsy, Roma, Traveller & Travelling Showpeople
Cheltenham Borough Council, Gloucester City Council, Cotswold District Council, Forest of Dean District Council, Tewkesbury Borough Council and Stroud District Council are working together to look for land that can be used for pitches, plots and moorings for the Gypsy, Roma, Traveller, Travelling Showpeople and Bargee communities.
This process is called a ‘call for sites’. The purpose of this is to work in partnership to meet the local authorities' combined duties. This follows on from the identification of need as set out in Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Assessment. You can find out more about this in the next section.
Submissions should be made via Gloucester City Council's website below.
Call for sites (Gloucester City Council webpage)
Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Assessment (November 2022)
Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Assessments (GTAA) must be carried out by local authorities under the terms of the Housing Act 2004.
Gloucestershire County Council and the county's six local housing authorities agreed to work in partnership to meet their combined duties. Research has led to the publication of a final GTAA that indicates the forecast pitch requirements for Gloucestershire.
The GTAA provides a credible evidence base that can be used to aid the implementation of development plan policies and the provision of new gypsy and traveller pitches and travelling showpeople plots. The outcomes of this study replace the outcomes of any previous GTAAs completed in Cheltenham, Cotswold, Forest of Dean, Gloucester, Stroud and Tewkesbury.