Councils fail to provide Traveller halting sites

LOCAL authorities have no hope of delivering on their legal obligation to provide halting sites or other accommodation for Travellers, it emerged yesterday.

Halfway through a five-year plan to provide almost 4,000 Traveller accommodation places nationwide, less than one-fifth of these units have been provided.

Less than 100 more families have been accommodated in halting sites since the start of the plan, just 100 in group housing and under 300 in standard housing, figures from the minister’s advisory committee reveal.