Regular readers will know that we are building support for our public meeting on the proposed Travellers Site on Valley Road. The meeting, on Monday 12th May at 7pm in Morley Town Hall bringing residents together to campaign with us to stop this site being dumped on Morley.
Over 250 objections have already been received by the planning Department and it is our aim to push that over the 1,000 mark. Along with good planning reasons for refusing the application - such as loss of important industrial land and proximity to the railway - other reasons are equally as relevant as our communities already having contributed to resolving the Travellers problem with the citing of Cottingley Springs on our doorstep.
We believe we have contributed significantly to resolving the Traveller problem and now its time for other areas to take some of this burden. It would be clearly unacceptable to have over 100 Traveller Families in a limited geographical area and would lead inevitably to a Dale Farm problem - a problem which cost millions to solve.
Planning Rules say Travellers sites should be smaller family run sites of less than 15 pitches. This application clearly fails this test.
Its time for Morley Folk to stand up and be counted and to join our campaign to block this proposal. I hope as many residents as possible will join me on Monday to send a clear "No!" to this inappropriate planning application.
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