AN "AGREEMENT" not to create a second gypsy traveller site in Llansamlet
cannot be found, residents have been told.
At a packed-out Swansea Council cabinet meeting, Thomas Jenkins said the
Labour party on the old West Glamorgan Council had promised to look elsewhere if
another site in Swansea was needed.
However, cabinet member for place, June Burtonshaw, said she could find no
record of such an agreement.
Mr Jenkins said: "Back in the 1980s West Glamorgan Labour had an agreement
with the Llansamlet ward Labour party that if it accepted a site they would not
place another site in the ward. Why isn’t the Labour party today honouring that?"
Council leader David Phillips said the cabinet meeting was not the place to
discuss Labour party matters.
But Mrs Burtonshaw added: "In 1986 West Glamorgan considered the location of
a gypsy traveller site and based on documents I’ve seen there was not an
agreement at that time preventing another gypsy traveller site in Llansamlet.
"I haven’t been able to see anything in any of the documents."
Another member of the public gallery, who was given a round of applause after
he spoke, asked: "If any area of Swansea had one site already, why would you put
a second one there?
