Plans to build a 130ft-high AI data centre have been put on hold amid concerns the development would ‘indirectly discriminate’ against a group of travellers living next door.
The proposed warehouse in the commuter town of Bushey, Hertfordshire, would be located just 10m away from an established traveller pitch with 27 caravans.
A travellers group objected to the project, saying it would cause indirect discrimination to the inhabitants through ‘loss of amenity, sleep disturbance and environmental stress’.
They added that travellers were a ‘recognised ethnic group protected under the Equality Act’ and that the site would cause them ‘unacceptable harm’.
Hertsmere councillors have now voted to delay
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