§ Mr. Gwilym Robertsasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will introduce temporary legislation to ensure that local authorities make certain fields available to gypsies and other itinerants as living-only sites in order to help the itinerants and to protect road verges from damage and refuse, until permanent sites become available.
§ Mr. GreenwoodLocal authorities already have powers to provide sites for caravans under the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act, 1960, and in circular 49/68 I urged them to set up temporary sites pending more permanent provision, and emphasised the difficulties created where gipsy families have nowhere to camp but on roadside verges and waste land.