GIPSY families have won their five-year battle to stay on a caravan site.
Julie Smith, Samantha Smith and Peter Greenwood of Cleeve Prior appealed against a refusal by Wychavon District Council to grant temporary consent for three mobile homes on the Twin Oaks site.
A Government inspector backed their appeal and agreed the three families should be granted a 10-year consent.
This was the latest in a series of appeals to the planning inspectorate and actions in the magistrates and high courts in the desperate battle to be allowed to remain in their homes.
"We are over the moon with the decision," said Julie Smith. "It has been a long battle with a successful outcome and we are all just pleased that it is over."
The three all have children who go to various local schools. At the appeal, headteachers and the advisory support teacher for the West Midlands Consortium Education Service for Travelling Children stressed the necessity for them to continue a settled education.
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