Leicester City Council is the lead authority responsible for co-ordinating the Leicestershire & Rutland Gypsies & Travellers Accommodation Needs Assessment (LRGTANA) and managing the research contract.

All local authorities sit on the LRGTANA Research Group. The partners are as follows - an asterisk indicates that they are also part of the LRGTANA Steering Group to whom partners have delegated decision-making authority.  

• Leicestershire County *
• Leicester City *
• Rutland County
• Blaby District *
• Charnwood Borough
• Harborough District *
• Hinckley and Bosworth Borough
• Melton Borough
• North West Leicestershire District
• Oadby and Wigston Borough

The LRGTANA Research Group agreed in October 2005 that the LRGTANA would need to be carried out by a research specialist who had previously worked with Gypsies and Travellers.

The tender was advertised in December 2005 and the LRGTANA received 26 Expressions of Interest and nine completed tenders. The tenders were short-listed to four and a Tender Panel held in March. The successful candidate, the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS), was subsequently appointed. CURS began work in June 2006.

CURS have been commissioned to carry out a minimum of 200 structured interviews with Gypsies and Travellers together with stakeholder interviews.

Click here for the Gypsies and Travellers Accommodation Needs Assessment report