Land at 'high risk' of flooding approved for Traveller pitches

COUNCIL OFFICERS ADMIT 'CONFLICT' BETWEEN RISK AND SUPPLY NEEDS

- By HANNAH BROWN Local democracy reporter

NEW homes for Gypsy and Traveller families are set to be created on the edge of a Cambridgeshire village.

Councillors at Fenland District Council have approved plans to create two new pitches on land off Seadyke Bank, near Murrow, where four mobile homes will be stationed.

Documents submitted to the district council said plans for the site would “make much needed accommodation available”.

Two previous applications to station four static caravans at the location were refused by the district council due to flood safety concerns.

Planning officers told councillors at a planning committee meeting on Wednesday that the site is in flood zone three and at the highest risk of flooding.