A PUBLIC inquiry into a gypsy site set up in a field in North Curry opens tomorrow (Thursday).
The hearing into the Oxen Lane camp will start at 10am in Deane House, Belvedere Road, Taunton, and continues on Friday.
The planning appeal is being made by five gypsies against Taunton Deane Council's refusal of four planning applications to pitch caravans on individual plots in the field.
Tracey Holland, Mary O'Neill, Jim Smith, and Leonard and Louise Small put in their unsuccessful applications last March.
The current appeal opened in North Curry Village Hall in December before moving to Deane House for a fourth day, when it ran out of time.
It had been due to re-open today (Wednesday), but was last week put back a day.
Several gypsy families moved onto the site in October 2004 after buying the field from a local farmer.
They were refused retrospective planning permission and the gypsies were told to leave within a year at a planning inquiry in June 2005.
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