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Category: Research, Policy and Systems Change
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I’ve Found a Piece of Land — Can I Live on It? A Gypsy Woman’s Plain-English Guide to Planning Permission
There has been a lot of noise about the new planning rules. Depending on which newspaper or Facebook comment you read, apparently Gypsies and Travellers can now buy a field, pull on with a caravan and planning permission is almost guaranteed. I wish. Equally, I still hear Gypsy and Traveller families say: “It’s Green Belt.…
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PGT Statement on the New National Planning Policy Framework
Proud Gypsy Traveller CIC welcomes important elements of the new National Planning Policy Framework and, in particular, a greater recognition that the shortage of lawful Gypsy and Traveller accommodation cannot be solved through enforcement alone. Earlier this year, PGT responded to the NPPF consultation drawing directly on our planning advocacy, welfare reporting and work alongside…
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Not Just a Strategy: The Courage to Make It Real
On 2 July 2026, I attended the launch of the Council of Europe Strategy for Roma and Traveller Inclusion 2026–2030, hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma at Portcullis House in Parliament. The event was chaired by Mary Foy MP, and brought together parliamentarians, Council of Europe representatives, civil society organisations,…
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The Last Acceptable Racism?
What Kemi Badenoch’s comments reveal about Britain’s treatment of Gypsy and Traveller communities Today, I listened to comments from Kemi Badenoch regarding Gypsy and Traveller communities and policing. I should have been shocked. Instead, I found myself feeling something closer to disappointment. Not because the comments were new. Sadly, they were not. They simply repeated…
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Planning Policy is Being Rewritten. Gypsy & Traveller Voices Must Be Heard.
Right now, the Government is consulting on changes to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). That might sound technical, but the reality is simple: Planning policy decides whether Gypsy and Traveller families can have a lawful place to live. For decades our communities have been caught in a cycle: • there are not enough authorised…
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When Rules Are Only Meant To Tame Us: Power In The Pen
We’re used to hearing it. “You break the rules.”“You don’t follow the system.”“Why can’t you just do things properly?” Those comments get thrown at Gypsy & Traveller families all the time, as if exclusion is a personal failing rather than a political design. As if the rules themselves are neutral, fair, and applied equally. They…