Heath Common in Wakefield
The scheme, which is subject to planning permission being approved, would cost local taxpayers about £6m.
Wakefield Council has acknowledged it will have to renegotiate a covenant which protects the green belt site in question as common land.
A view of Heath Common, from the edge of Doncaster Road. The site is the largest public traveller encampment in the Wakefield district.
Now Warmfield-cum-Heath Parish Council has come out against to the plans, saying it would be "impossible to replace this cherished piece of the Wakefield landscape".
A statement issued this week said: "Following consultation with local parishioners and residents of the existing Heath Travellers' site, Warmfield-cum-Heath Parish Council is strongly opposed to the planned additional travellers’ site in Heath.