... negative responses from local residents in addition to the authorities and police who since the introduction of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, are allowed to evict travellers under section 61 of the act. The act also limits the areas where travellers can stop making it an offence for them to rest on areas unauthorised by the local authority. Some local authorities have provided legal sites for travellers however which have been met with mixed response. This essay will evaluate the success of one such traveller site in Horsdean, Brighton assessing the advantages and disadvantages of a permanent site with regards to travellers and local residents. Primarily, this piece will begin by introducing gypsy travellers and defining their group in society. The subsequent section introduces the case study of Horsdean legal travellers site in Brighton and provides a summary of why the site was introduced, detailing its main ...

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