§ Mr. HunterTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the cost of establishing under the Caravan Sites Act 1968 the site at Peak Copse, Dummer, Basingstoke, including all the preliminaries, the cost of the public inquiry and the cost of actual construction.
§ Mr. YeoThe cost of the preliminary work on the planning application concerning the site and of the public local inquiry which was held in January 1989, fell principally on Hampshire county council. The costs of the inquiry inspector, which were borne by the Secretary of State, are not separately identifiable.
The actual cost of constructing the site will not be known before completion of the scheme in mid 1992, but the tender accepted by the Hampshire county council in the sum of £616,738 is within the approved estimate for gipsy site grant.