Gipsies Win Right to Stay at Mobile Home Site in Wiltshire ; Gipsies Who Turned a Field in North Wiltshire Into a 16-Pitch Mobile Home Site Without Planning Permission Over One August Weekend Five Years Ago Have Finally Won the Right to Stay for Ever.

Western Daily Press › October 08, 2008

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Gipsies who turned a field in north Wiltshire into a 16-pitch mobile home site without planning permission over one August weekend five years ago have finally won the right to stay for ever.

A planning inspector has ruled that local residents and planners will never be able to move on the gipsy families, whose battle turned into one of the most infamous between the Romany community and local councils in England.

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Gipsies Win Right to Stay at Mobile Home Site in Wiltshire ; Gipsies Who Turned a Field in North Wiltshire Into a 16-Pitch Mobile Home Site Without Planning Permission Over One August Weekend Five Years Ago Have Finally Won the Right to Stay for Ever.

Residents living near the site in Minety, near Malmesbury, said they were outraged at the decision, while gipsies said they were relieved their long fight was ove...

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