Sentence examples for on unauthorised sites from inspiring English sources

About 500 Travellers at Dale Farm, approximately half of the community, live on unauthorised sites and are therefore, within the terms of the 1996 Housing Act, homeless.

The total number of caravans pitched on unauthorised sites rose by 39% from the previous year.

Some of the links led to legal sources, others to unauthorised sites.

Throughout this paper, we use the term Traveller in its broadest sense to include distinct and diverse Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities, who may be settled or nomadic, and may live on authorised or unauthorised sites or in houses).

Despite the eviction of more than 80 families, the Sheridans and two other families remain and have a legal right to live on Dale Farm after a court order protected three pitches on the unauthorised site.

On average, the council said about 12 unauthorised sites exist in the county at any one time.

Of the unauthorised sites, there were 38 caravans on land owned by Gypsies and Travellers, accounting for 4% of all caravans and a further 166 on others.

But he said councils were being given stronger enforcement powers to stop unauthorised sites being established.

And although unauthorised sites can cause problems, such as fly-tipping and tension between travellers and locals, the belief that legal gypsy and traveller sites are hotbeds of crime is unfounded, says Janette McCormick, the assistant chief constable of Cheshire Police, who speaks for the Association of Chief Police Officers on gypsies and travellers.

The government hopes that having traveller and gypsy sites set up by local authorities, rather than unauthorised sites, would be beneficial socially.

Mr Pickles said: "I want all councils to be ready to take action straightaway to stop illegal camps and unauthorised sites starting in the first place.