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Article: West Norfolk gipsy sites up by 53.
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- Lynn News/Norfolk Citizen (King's Lynn, England)
- Article date:
- January 29, 2008
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THE number of gipsy and traveller sites in West Norfolk will be increased by a further 53 pitches by 2011, regional leaders ruled last week.
Each local authority in the county has been asked to provide a minimum of 15 additional pitches over the next three years but West Norfolk has been set the highest quota of the seven councils in Norfolk.
South Norfolk is the only other district in Norfolk to have been set a number above the minimum, but its 28 pitches fall 25 short of the number required in West Norfolk.
The decision was made by the East of England Regional Assembly on Friday in a bid to create an increase in the number of legal sites ...