The Travellers Transit Site at Horsdean

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The traveller site was opened in 1999.
Would you kindly provide the following figures:
A. How much public money has been spent on the initial and subsequent developments of the site including all annual running costs to the end of 2014. The figure should include central government grants & local authority costs.
B. The total income achieved from letting pitches in the same period.

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Brighton and Hove City Council

Our Response:
The information we hold only goes back to April 2000.

A. The total running costs for Horsdean Traveller Site from April 2000 to December 2014 were £1,527,594.
The total expenditure on initial and subsequent developments of the site for the same period was £542,200. This includes a government grant of £247,000.
The total money spent on developing and running Horsdean Traveller Site for this period is therefore £2,069,794.

B. The total income achieved from letting pitches in the same period is £207,285

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