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A group of caravan insurance holders have won their battle to remain on a site in Garforth, Leeds.

Planning officials at the city council have announced that all 84 caravans at Sturton Grange Farm will be allowed to stay there for the next three years, according to Garforth Today.

The dispute had come about after residents living close to the site had expressed their unhappiness over the behaviour of some of the farm's seasonal workers.

Neighbours cited problems with "late-night parties" and "rowdy games of football", according to the newspaper.

But the workers have now been given permission to stay in their caravans, although they will be relocated further away from residential roads in the area.

Councillor Mark Dobson hailed the outcome as "a victory for common sense" and claimed that it is "very good news" for local people.

"For me personally, it represents the culmination of five years' work to achieve an outcome that facilitates the needs of residents and landowner," he said.

This comes after councillors in Lancashire also ruled in favour of a group of caravan owners following a recent dispute, the Lakeland Echo reports.

Officials overturned a regulation that would only allow mobile home owners at the Oxcliffe New Farm Site in Heysham to sell their vehicles to Travellers or Gypsies.

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