GAZETTE & HERALD: THREE weeks after deferring the case over human rights issues, councillors are expected to serve a notice to quit on a family of gypsies living at Pudding Brook.
Last month, the Skeet-Smith family won a reprieve against being evicted from land on Bath Road, Chippenham.
The gypsies' agent had threatened to take the council to the High Court for flouting their human rights.
But North Wiltshire District Council's development control committee, meeting last night was expected to issue an enforcement notice to force the Romany family from the site.
The family failed in an application to remove an agricultural-only clause last year and is waiting for chance to appeal.
The Romanies, an extended family consisting of grandparents Jesse and Lena Smith and their daughter Jean Skeet and her family, have lived in north Wiltshire for more than 50 years. The family says it will not be moved.
But the council says the access from the family's site onto the A4 is a safety hazard.
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