The date for an eight-day public inquiry into a controversial Traveller site that is home to eight families has been set for May.
James Delaney and seven other families had bought the land off Cransley Road, Loddington, close to Cransley Reservoir and had started work to clear the field.
The planning authority – the former Kettering Borough Council – first gave a temporary stop notice to works going on at the plot on Friday, October 11, 2019, but the notice was ignored.
A one-day inquiry had been due to take place in November 2021, and now an eight-day inquiry will set out the appeal by Mr Delaney against the enforcement notices.
A public notice giving the reason for the inquiry said: “Without planning permission, the making of a material change of use of the land from a use for agriculture to a use for the stationing and human habitation of caravans, the construction of an area of hard standing together with a hard standing means of access and erection of a breeze block building on the…
