Our UK planning permission system is based in the nature of use. Change from scrapyard to residential requires planning permission. It is a different use. Residential is residential even if it is in a caravan.

The Green belt was set up to prevent urban sprawl. Those in less crowded countries can have little perception on how that really matters in the UK. If you drove at the legal speed limit (it would have to be at about 3 am) round the south circular and north circular back to where you started it would take over 2 hours and you would be in an urban setting all the way - in some parts quite well into an urban setting.

It was to protect the environment, and the proposed conservative relaxations to let profiteers and land speculators turn a faster buck are quite villanous - but the present system is not honestly run and does discriminate against travellers.

Councils are supposed to provide traveller sites but they do not. Wtat there is is insufficient, those there are are often unsavoury. What is the traveller to do?