PLANS for a £1.4 million Gypsy camp have been rubber-stamped by council planners.

Travellers in Bridlington are delighted the three-year wait for a decision on the Woldgate site is finally over.

It was delayed by demands for a second public exhibition after objectors said they had not been properly consulted about proposals to demolish the rotting camp and build a new one.

But only 31 people looked at the plans when they were shown at St Mark's Church Centre, Bessingby Gate, earlier this month.

Bridlington-based East Riding Councillor Chad Chadwick, who had demanded the extra consultation, said only one objector from the housing estate next to the planned development had attended the exhibition.

Most of the initial objections had been about litter and trespassing.

Mr Chadwick said: "In the years we have lived near the site, we have had no complaints. And anyone can throw tyres in ditches, it's not necessarily Gypsies."

Lindsey Jones, of Gypsy campaign group Hidden Voices, said: "I'm really pleased it's been passed, it was the only proper outcome. Anything else would have been devastating for the local community.

"The people have known since 2007 that we had the money, but we were starting to wonder if it would ever happen.

"It's positive that so few people went to the exhibition. It shows there isn't really opposition to the site."

Despite public apathy, Carnaby Parish Council had urged planners to reject the application, or at least demand that a steel fence be put around it. In the end, there was no such condition.

Ms Jones said: "I don't understand where they're coming from with the fence idea. It wouldn't make it blend in very well.

"With a fence, it would look like a prison or something. It would make them look different straightaway."

At yesterday's planning meeting councillors were told it was the last chance to access Government money to improve the site.

The deadline from the Department For Communities And Local Government was extended at the end of last year.