Church of England should make land available for gypsies and travellers, General Synod votes
I think this is a fascinating story. I’d like to see the CoE being a lot more imaginative alongside this about the role its land holdings could play in addressing the challenges of sites for rural affordable housing.
The Church of England should make land available for gypsies and travellers, the General Synod has voted, despite concerns that they bring “a lot of upset and fear”.
Members overwhelmingly supported a motion calling on the Church to donate land from its notoriously large portfolio to the traveller community, just five months after Government ministers revealed they were considering making trespass a criminal offence to stop them moving onto private land.