An Irish traveller, who lives with her six children in three caravans in Llanelli, has succeeded in her High Court challenge to Carmarthenshire County Councils bid to evict the family.
Counsel for Margaret Price criticised the council’s decision that they had done all they could to accommodate the family after Price refused to move into conventional housing, which she “abhors”.
Newman J has ruled that the council must reconsider the case. Price is an Irish traveller by descent through many generations, and has always lived in a caravan.
The judge ruled that the council had failed to show sufficient respect to her way of life when concluding that, because she had once considered conventional housing in 2001, she did not have a genuine cultural aversion towards it.
Price v Camarthenshire County Council Queen’s Bench Division (Newman J) 6 December 2002.
PLS News 24/01/03
