New site for travellers , containing eight permanent and five 'transit ' pitches , is due to open in Bath next month . Carrswood View is the most expensive travellers ' site to be built in Britain - the next most costly came in at 105 . Bath and North Somerset Council must sabe £9m this year and have 5,000 people on waiting lists for social housing . Pitches are fenced off and include a separate permanent building with washing facilities and space to put furniture . It has been developed in the green built on the site of an illegal encampment which had become a run-down mess .
New site for travellers , containing eight permanent and five 'transit ' pitches , is due to open in Bath next month . Carrswood View is the most expensive travellers ' site to be built in Britain - the next most costly came in at £1.3m . Bath and North Somerset Council must sabe £9m this year and have 5,000 people on waiting lists for social housing . Pitches are fenced off and include a separate permanent building with washing facilities and space to put furniture . It has been developed in the green built on the site of an illegal encampment which had become a run-down mess .