The council will only approve proposals for permanent sites, temporary stopping places and transit sites for gypsies and other travelling people, provided that the following criteria are met:

1. The site is supplied with essential services such as water, sewerage and drainage and waste disposal; and
2. There is adequate parking and turning space within the site; and
3. There is safe access into the site; and
4. The site is adequately landscaped; and
5. The site is reasonably accessible to local services and facilities; and
6. The site is situated outside areas of constraint, including the Green Belt, Metropolitan Open Land and Sites of Nature Conservation Importance; and
7. It helps to meet an identified need; and
8. There are conditions and/or planning obligations in place to ensure that it has no demonstrably harmful impact on local amenity.