Traveller builds 'dream family home' over wildlife haven but admits he did not apply for planning permission

Traveller builds 'dream family home' over wildlife haven but admits he did not apply for planning permission

A 39-year-old Irish traveller has admitted to never seeking planning permission for an illegal caravan site he constructed over a seven-acre woodland area teeming with wildlife.Michael Delaney transformed the site near Crawley Down, Sussex into an unauthorised encampment for his extended family, failing to seek planning approval because the process would prove "painstakingly difficult."The site, which Delaney has called his "dream home," was fir…