Gypsy Travellers (Council Tax) – Public Petitions Committee, 20 September 2011

14/03/2012

The area is very complex. At the moment, Fife is dealing with stopover sites, which have a habit of becoming long-stay sites.

However, I believe that, as Sandra White suggested, we should hold fire. I find the matter to be all very complex. I support the view that Gypsy Travellers should …

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Gypsy Traveller Encampments (Guidance) – Public Petitions Committee, 20 September 2011

14/03/2012

I have some experience of this in Fife, as I mentioned during discussion of an earlier petition. We need more than guidelines. The problem is that guidelines are only guidelines—an idea that we hear a lot in local government. Local authorities think that because there are only guidelines they can do…

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