Gypsy and Traveller Development Plan Document (DPD)
The council is required to plan for the needs of Gypsy and Travellers and Travelling Showpeople in accordance with government guidance. Within Local Plan policy H SP5 committed to producing a Gypsy & Traveller and Travelling Showpeople Site Allocations document. This page therefore sets out all the steps taken to produce this.
Gypsy and Traveller Development Plan Document (G&T DPD) - Publication - Regulation 19 Consultation
We are preparing the above G&T DPD - Publication under Regulation 19 of the ‘Town & Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulation 2012’). The G&T DPD Publication is being considered at Planning Policy Committee on the 28 November 2023. It is anticipated that following approval, public consultation will run for 6 weeks commencing on 13 December and closing on 16 January 2024. At ‘Publication’ stage, representations can only be made on legal and soundness matters. The consultation includes the Sustainability Appraisal, existing and new supporting evidence studies also listed together with the Publication G&T DPD below:
G&T DPD Sustainability Appraisal (Volume 1 - Non Technical Summary) 2023 [pdf] 3MB
G&T DPD Sustainability Appraisal (Volume 2) 2023 [pdf] 5MB
G&T Polices Map Reg 19 (with Insets) [pdf] 12MB
Proposed Submission Policy Map (changes) [pdf] 13MB
Proposed Submission Map schedule of changes [xlsx] 21KB
Inset_ARU044_2 Wydnham Acres [pdf] 2MB
Inset_ARU_NS_1 The Caravan Site [pdf] 3MB
Inset_ARU022 The Drive [pdf] 2MB
Inset_ARU052 The Cottage Piggeries [pdf] 1MB
Inset_ARU_HELAA -46b Little Meadow [pdf] 950KB
Inset_ARU030 Ryebank [pdf] 897KB
Inset_ARU031 Field View [pdf] 1MB
Inset_ARU046 Nyton Stables [pdf] 752KB
Inset_AL4714 Land at Aldingbourne Farm Shop [pdf] 902KB
Inset_ARU049 Land at Limmer Pond [pdf] 1011KB
Inset_ARU045_The Paddocks [pdf] 913KB
Inset_ARU054 The Old Barns [pdf] 2MB
Inset_ARU023_Fairfield [pdf] 2MB
Inset_ARU051_Dragonfly [pdf] 4MB
G&T Reg 19 Statement of Representations Procedure [pdf] 128KB
G&T Reg 19 Statement of Consultation [pdf] 660KB
G&T Reg 19 Duty to Cooperate Statement[pdf] 3MB
G&T Site Delivery Study 2023 [pdf] 8MB
Technical Note Summary of flood predictions at Gypsy & Traveller site allocations 2023 [pdf] 3MB
Technical Note Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Showmen - Access Review 2023 [pdf] 6MB
Gypsy and Traveller DPD Preferred Options
The Preferred Options take a positive approach to safeguarding existing sites within the District, proposing intensification on some of these and proposing to allocate a broad location to meet the identified need.
The following documents formed the consultation that was carried out for a period of 8 weeks in late 2020. It is important to note that in order to facilitate responses, the Arun Gypsy and Traveller and Travelling Showpeople Site Allocations Development Plan Document (G&T DPD) – PREFERRED OPTIONS set out the context for consideration of these preferred options, including national and regional policies and the available evidence base / statistical background. It is important to note that in order to facilitate responses, the Arun Gypsy and Traveller and Travelling Showpeople Site Allocations Development Plan Document (G&T DPD) – PREFERRED OPTIONS set out the context for consideration of these preferred options, including national and regional policies and the available evidence base / statistical background.
- Draft G&T Preferred Options DPD[pdf] 859KB
- G&T Reg.18 Preferred Options (the document can be viewed online)
- Reg 18 G&T statement of consultation.pdf[pdf] 364KB
- SA Technical note [pdf] 1MB
- Sustainability Appraisal [pdf] 3MB
- G&T_Polices Map with Insets.pdf[pdf] 7MB
- G&T Flooding Zone Map [pdf] 5MB
- Climate change impact and sites (over 100 years). N.B. For ease and clarity for the purpose of this consultation, this specifically presents the sites in relation to Appendix D: Climate Change from the SFRA.
- FINAL HRA Screening LSE report [pdf] 1MB: HRA: Likely Significant Effects Report on the Gypsy and Traveller DPD
Meeting Need
Gypsy & Traveller and Travelling Showpeople Site identification Study 2019
A Gypsy & Traveller Site Identification Study 2019 (G&TSIS 2019) has been carried out to look at all reasonable options for sites that could accommodate the identified need set out in the GTAA 2019 through provision of permanent gypsy and traveller and traveller showmen accommodation.
The process included a ‘call for sites’ that asked all stakeholders including the district’s town and parish councils to submit potential sites within their areas.
The FINAL Arun G&T Report Final April 2019 [pdf] 21MB sets out the potential site provision within Arun to accommodate the identified need for Gypsies and Travellers and travelling showpeople within Arun for the period to 2036.
Gypsy and Traveller and Travelling Showpeople Site Allocations Development Plan Document (G&T DPD) Issues & Options
The Council is undertaking an Issues and Options public consultation from 8 July until 5pm on 2 September on the first stage of preparing its Gypsy and Traveller and Travelling Showpeople Site Allocations Development Plan Document (G&T DPD). The Issues & Options document and accompanying evidence documents can be accessed online via our portal or below:
comments form GT DPD [docx] 132KB
Further periods of public consultation are planned with a Preferred Draft later in 2019 and Regulation 19 Publication (during Spring) 2020. The G&T DPD production timetable can be seen in the Council’s Local Development Scheme.
Sustainability appraisal
Full Sustainability Appraisal is not required until Regulation 18 draft plan stage. However, an early Sustainability Appraisal Report [pdf] 3MB assessment has been carried out for the sites which will shape the Issues & Options Gypsy and Traveller and Travelling Showpeople Site Allocations Development Plan Document (G&T DPD) in order to make sure that the plan being prepared is the most sustainable.