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Author:  l3v1ck [ Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:59 pm ]
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News CLICKY

Good.
The rest of us have to obey planning laws, why shouldn't they?
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Wed Aug 31, 2011 4:32 pm ]
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Not necessarily

Planning reform will lead to development 'free-for-all'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011 ... een-groups
Author:  Zippy [ Wed Aug 31, 2011 5:07 pm ]
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Am I the only one wondering why "Travellers" need a permanent site? Surely they should be travelling!!

So they've bought the land themselves, built homes without planning permission but in any case, most of the occupants have been subject to an enforcement notice for 8 years and have therefore already been breaking the law since then, why would anyone expect them to get an injunction allowing them to continue to break the law?

Surely the easiest solution would be to bulldoze the homes and leave them to their tents and caravans? They are travellers after all.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Thu Sep 01, 2011 9:47 am ]
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Zippy wrote:
Am I the only one wondering why "Travellers" need a permanent site? Surely they should be travelling!!

Maybe they have decided that petrol is too expensive and too valuable to be able to steal easily. :lol:
Author:  Spreadie [ Thu Sep 01, 2011 10:03 am ]
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l3v1ck wrote:
News CLICKY

Good.
The rest of us have to obey planning laws, why shouldn't they?

+1

They knew exactly what they were doing when they decided to build, and just figured they'd get away with it.

Now that have lost, they're hoping for some outpouring of public sympathy to strengthen their position? Not likely.
Author:  paulzolo [ Thu Sep 01, 2011 10:42 am ]
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I see that have a faded actress and a couple of local sky pilots supporting them.

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Two bishops and actress Vanessa Redgrave visited the site on Tuesday to support the residents.

Bishop of Chelmsford Stephen Cottrell and Catholic Bishop of Brentwood Thomas McMahon went on a pastoral visit and pleaded with authorities to think again about the eviction.


I’ll wait for the forced evictions. It will be a battle getting them off the site.

zippy wrote:
Am I the only one wondering why "Travellers" need a permanent site? Surely they should be travelling!!

At least in one place they are making a few people’s lives a misery, not traipsing around Essex and the wider country. I watched a documentary about them. I think the problems the locals are facing are more down to the feral behaviour of some of the “travellers” rather than the illegality of the site itself.
Author:  paulzolo [ Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:48 am ]
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Well, the eviction date has been set. 19th September.

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The eviction of travellers from the UK's largest illegal site will take place during the week commencing 19 September, the BBC has learned.

About 400 people face eviction from Dale Farm, at Crays Hill, Essex, by Basildon Council.

The deadline for them to leave the illegal site passed last Wednesday.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-14785894
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Mon Sep 05, 2011 11:32 am ]
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paulzolo wrote:
I think the problems the locals are facing are more down to the feral behaviour of some of the “travellers” rather than the illegality of the site itself.

I also think that is why people do not want the travellers near them.
Author:  paulzolo [ Mon Sep 05, 2011 11:37 am ]
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Amnesia10 wrote:
paulzolo wrote:
I think the problems the locals are facing are more down to the feral behaviour of some of the “travellers” rather than the illegality of the site itself.

I also think that is why people do not want the travellers near them.


Indeed. One tweet I read over the weekend went along the lines of “if you care for them so much, invite them onto your property”.

Mind you, I wonder how far any of the travellers on the farm will get considering their mobile homes are the “bolted to the tarmac” variety.

I’ll tell my inappropriate joke while we’re on the subject:

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Tell the travellers that it’s a bank holiday on Mars, and they’ll be there like a shot. There will be hard standing, rudimentary sewerage and dongs on chains by the end of the week. It will save NASA billions in developing modular habitation.


Told you it was inappropriate. :lol:
Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Mon Sep 05, 2011 11:40 am ]
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nuke 'um from orbit. its the only way to be sure ...
Author:  paulzolo [ Mon Sep 05, 2011 2:26 pm ]
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MrStevenRogers wrote:
nuke 'um from orbit. its the only way to be sure ...


If a few stray onto Billericay, I don’t think there will be too many tears shed.
Author:  Paul1965 [ Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:33 pm ]
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Amnesia10 wrote:
I also think that is why people do not want the travellers near them.


+1000
Author:  AlunD [ Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:24 pm ]
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Paul1965 wrote:
Amnesia10 wrote:
I also think that is why people do not want the travellers near them.


+1000

+10000
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:21 pm ]
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ds-newsxml

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Many travellers who say they will have nowhere to live when they are evicted from Britain's biggest gipsy camp secretly own properties elsewhere, it has been claimed.

The 86 families have long protested they'll be made homeless when they are forcibly removed from Dale Farm, Essex.

However, new evidence has revealed many of them are connected to homes in Rathkeale, a town in the Republic of Ireland which is often regarded as a spiritual home for travellers.

Prosecute them for possible benefit fraud.
Author:  paulzolo [ Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:19 am ]
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A UN team will be assessing the situation.

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A United Nations team is to visit the UK's largest illegal traveller settlement later, ahead of a planned mass eviction next week.

The Advisory Group on Forced Evictions (UNAGFE) will hold a press conference at Dale Farm in Essex, where Basildon Council is to evict 85 families.

UNAFGE will launch its report on the eviction of gypsies and travellers in the wider London area.

Basildon Council said the group had not contacted it about the report.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-14911437

What will be interesting is how this unfolds. The Police are there to maintain order. What they won’t be doing (I understand) is aiding the eviction, which will be done by bailiffs.

Essentially, this could become a small private war between Basildon council and the so called travellers.
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