Member

Gypsies and Travellers are an important part of Britain’s population, heritage and social fabric. Providing well-designed, good-quality, managed sites for these groups supports healthy and happy communities, and addresses wider determinants of health, education and employment. This is not solely the realm of housing. Other public services should care about this issue too, including public health, children’s services and others, because the symptoms flowing from a lack of quality accommodation end up presenting in schools, hospitals, welfare services and prisons. As a business case, the delivery of appropriate sites has been shown to save public money from being spent on endless evictions from unauthorised encampments.