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The council is expected to discuss how many traveller sites should be provided in Bristol at a meeting tonight.

It follows on from the Government decision to scrap regional strategies and centrally-set house building targets. The Secretary of State for Communities announced last week that the legistlation, introduced under the previous Labour government, should be abolished.  Following on from that, part of the requirement to provide additional gypsy and traveller sites is no longer obligatory.

It means the number of areas devoted to traveller and gypsy sites in any particular locality is now more in the hands of the local authority instead of being dictated to a large degree by the government.

The upshot is that Bristol City Council now has more power to make decisions about how many traveller sites the city needs based on their own experience.

Bristol City Council has now said they recognise that 'there is no need for further traveller sites in Bristol - particularly when existing facilities at the transit camp in Kings Weston Lane continue to remain under-utilised'.

At the full council meeting tonight(Tuesday 7th September) the council is expected to discuss the future provision of gypsy and traveller site sin the city.

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