Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    SS/HW6/GT/2/1/2
  • Title
    General correspondence file including the following:
  • Date free text
    1970-1972
  • Production date
    From: 1970 To: 1972
  • Scope and Content
    -correspondence from West Sussex County Council relating to proposals for the development of a caravan site, providing a comparison for the proposal for Bedfordshire’s Pepperstock site; -minutes of the Gipsy Sub-Committee documenting the establishment of the Pepperstock site; -Selection Of Gipsy Sites In South Bedfordshire, report of the County Planner; -letter from Leighton-Linslade Urban District Council, strongly opposing the proposed caravan sites at Shenley Hill Road, Bassett Road, and Mentmore Road, supported by letters of objection from company’s and residents of Leighton Buzzard. -letter from the Secretary of Bedfordshire Gipsy Council, condemming an article in the Evening Post “Make Gipsies Pay Their Way”, responding with “Have YOU helped our Gipsies to stay MORE than five minutes anywhere?” and a further letters urging for cooperation “telephone calls have proved ineffective, visits, no response, letters have been unanswered and promises (carrots) have not been fulfilled”; -statement from Arlesey residents, objecting to the proposed permanent Gipsy site in the village; -correspondence regarding dissatisfaction by the County Council’s delegation, at the annual cost to the ratepayers in running the Pepperstock Gipsy site; -letter from the Gipsy Liason Officer regarding Gipsies at Greenfield and Pulloxhill; -correspondence regarding complaints generated by the Gipsy problem in the Dunstable Downs; -Duties and Responsibilities of the Gipsy Liason Officer; -press notice Residential Gipsy Site Is Proposed Between Cardington and Cople; -document Gipsy Caravan Sites - Standards And Cost Of Provision; -Caravan Sites Act 1968 - Part 11; -draft rules and conditions for Luton Rural District Council Pepperstock Caravan Site; -incomplete series of Bedfordshire Gipsy States (monthly statistics).
  • Level of description
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