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Public Enquiry into possible permanent Gipsy site at Cut Throat Lane, Bedford - with little direct Education Department involvement but presumably kept by the Department due to potential implications for the service, including material as follows:

1973 - 1976

From: 1973 To: 1976

- reports on possible site for Gipsy encampment at Central Electricity Generating Board site at Cut Throat Lane; - correspondence between Bedfordshire County Council, Bedford District Council and Department of the Environment on the proposed site; - letters, petitions etc. opposing the proposal from Bedford & District Gardeners’ Association, Poets’ Corner Action Group (local residents in the Shakespeare Road area) and individual local residents; - report by County Secretary on proposed site; - reports by Gipsy Liaison Officer on proposed site; - report by County Architect on proposed site; - observations by Bedfordshire County Council on objections to proposed site by Bedford District Council; - numbers at Gipsy sites at Bedford, Biggleswade, Ampthill, South Bedfordshire and Luton for each month from Jan 1973 to Dec 1975; - numbers at Gipsy encampments within nine miles of Cut Throat Lane for each month from Jan 1973 to Dec 1975; - proof of evidence of Chief Planner of North Bedfordshire Borough Council to Public Inquiry under Town & Country Planning Act 1971 and Caravan Sites Act 1968; - proofs of evidence of Bedfordshire County Council Deputy Engineer, Assistant Education Officer (Sites & Buildings Programmes), Deputy County Architect, Gipsy Liaison Officer and Assistant County Planning Officer to Public Inquiry; - statement of Bedford District Council objections to proposed site; - statement of reasons for compulsory acquisition of site by Bedfordshire County Council; - list of documents referred to or put in evidence by Bedfordshire County Council at Public Inquiry; - views of Regional Controller (Roads & Transportation) on proposed site; - map of other Gipsy sites within a nine mile radius of Cut Throat Lane.

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Central Electricity Generating Board,
Bedfordshire County Council,
Bedford District Council,
Department of the Environment,
Bedford & District Gardeners' Association,
Poets' Corner Action Group, Bedford,
County Secretary,
Gipsy Liaison Officer,
Planning Department,
North Bedfordshire Borough Council

Gipsies, traveller, public enquiries, buildings and land use, mobile home park, Bedford Cut Throat Lane, BEDFORD, business correspondence, Bedfordshire County Council, Bedford District Council, Department of the Environment, personal correspondence, petitions, Bedford Shakespeare Road, County Secretary, County Architect, Town & Country Planning, population statistics, BIGGLESWADE, AMPTHILL, South Bedfordshire, LUTON, Planning Officer, North Bedfordshire Borough Council, Town and Country Planning Act 1971, 1968 Caravan Sites Act, public inquiry, deputy engineer, Education Officer, Controller, town & local roads, maps