Traveller Needs Assessment

In anticipation of government legislation advising local planning authorities to complete a survey of need for the Travelling population, the Cambridgeshire authorities plus four other authorities in the sub-region agreed, early in 2004, to commission a sub-regional Travellers Needs Assessment (TNA).

Cambridgeshire County Council led a multi-agency consortium in preparing a brief for the work, which was put out to competitive tender. The councils involved in this joint project were, South Cambridgeshire; East Cambridgeshire; Fenland; Huntingdonshire; Cambridge City; Peterborough (unitary); King's Lynn & West Norfolk (Norfolk); Forest Heath and St. Edmundsbury (both Suffolk). The contract was awarded to academics from Anglia Ruskin University and Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College. In order to ensure credibility with the Traveller community, a Traveller consultant was engaged to work with the research team.

The Traveller Needs Assessment has now been completed and the final results can be viewed in the reports below: