Why the strange search area, it doesn make sense?
The council planners have selected the search area saying it is where Gypsies and Travellers have had illegal encampments in the past (claiming travellers must really like those locations) and close to the main roads too because they have caravans and caravans need roads. North Tyneside has a well developed Road Network so there’s no need to restrict sites to the A19 corridor or Sandy Lane(if an HGV can make it I’m sure a determined caravan will too). Moreover, travellers may have only camped at those locations in the past because there was nowhere else to go – hardly a good reason for planners to restrict the site to Sandy Lane or A19. It’s easy to eliminate the reasons for the search areas given by the planners, so the only logical conclusion is that it is a masked attempt to keep the travellers site away from somewhere.
