A family of travellers can live permanently at a site in Newton near Sudbury, councillors have decided.
At a Babergh District Counci planning meeting last week, an application to change the use of a paddock in Sackers Green to enable a mobile home to be pitched there on a permanent basis, was given unanimous backing.
The Street family has lived in a caravan close to the paddock in a neighbouring builder’s yard for the past seven years. As a planning condition, gates must be installed at the paddock entrance, and if the family moves away from the site, it will revert back to agricultural use.
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