Application to the High Court Injunction to Deal with Unauthorised Encampments
[To approve an application to the High Court for an injunction to deal with the unauthorised encampments]
Additional documents:
Decision:
1. That pursuing injunctive proceedings to restrain unauthorised encampments in the Council area, by application to the High Court be approved, as it is in the interests of the City of Wolverhampton area.
2. That authority be delegated to the Cabinet Member for City Environment in consultation with the Service Director: City Environment and the Director for Governance to authorise, by Individual Executive Decision Notice (IEDN), the commencement of High Court Injunction proceedings once satisfied as to the cogency and quality of the Council’s evidence.
3. That the continuing work to identify suitable land on which to construct a transit site for use by travellers and gypsies and the potential investment requirements associated with this, in accordance with the Black Country and South Staffordshire Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Show People Accommodation Assessment and the Black Country Core Strategy be noted.
Minutes:
Councillor Roger Lawrence presented the report on the current situation relating to unauthorised encampments by travellers and on the threats posed by a likely increase during 2018. Approval was sought to measures to assist in proactively combating those threats.
Resolved:
1. That pursuing injunctive proceedings to restrain unauthorised encampments in the Council area, by application to the High Court be approved, as it is in the interests of the City of Wolverhampton area.
2. That authority be delegated to the Cabinet Member for City Environment in consultation with the Service Director: City Environment and the Director for Governance to authorise, by Individual Executive Decision Notice (IEDN), the commencement of High Court Injunction proceedings once satisfied as to the cogency and quality of the Council’s evidence.
3. That the continuing work to identify suitable land on which to construct a transit site for use by travellers and gypsies and the potential investment requirements associated with this, in accordance with the Black Country and South Staffordshire Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Show People Accommodation Assessment and the Black Country Core Strategy be noted.