Memorandum by Tameside Metropolitan Borough
(TF 66)
I understand from Councillor Gwynne that you
are conducting an inquiry into this issue and would welcome some
comments on our experience.
Tameside has three such sites, at Catherine
Street and Milton Street, Denton, both in industrial areas, and
at Mill Lane in Hyde, a longstanding Green Belt site.
You will remember the relocation of the travelling
showman from the motorway line in Audenshaw. We are also currently
dealing with a planning application to relocate the Milton Street
site, to an industrial site at Park Road, in Dukinfield.
Government guidance is set out in circular 22/91
and in general, we have found this to be practical and relevant.
As a mixed use, showman sites can be difficult to pigeonhole,
but in conurbation, like Tameside, it has proved possible to find
acceptable low value, industrial sites.
It must be confessed that Tameside UDP makes
no reference to travelling showman, although this is advised in
the circular. In practice I believe the guidance in the circular
is perfectly adequate to deal with applications, I believe it
would be unrealistic and unnecessary for plans to make specific
allocations for showmen.
Development Control Manager
March 2000
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