One of the three sites being considered to accommodate the future housing needs of Newark's gypsy and traveller population has been found to be unsuitable. Newark and Sherwood District Council announced plans to meet the future housing needs of the community earlier this year, as it does with other types of future needs for housing.
This proposal would see additional pitches created across three new potential sites to accommodate caravans and needed amenity space. These sites would include Chestnut Lodge at Barnby, Belvoir Ironworks and Trent Lane, Newark, providing 69 of the 77 new pitches that the council will need to provide in the next five years.
However a report due to be presented at the District Council's cabinet meeting on Tuesday, July 12, will recommend that the proposed Trent Lane site is not deliverable for gypsy and traveller use. This is land that was available for the sale to the council and was hoped to provide 19 pitches.
