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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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News CLICKYGood. The rest of us have to obey planning laws, why shouldn't they?
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Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:59 pm |
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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Not necessarily Planning reform will lead to development 'free-for-all' http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011 ... een-groups
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Wed Aug 31, 2011 4:32 pm |
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Zippy
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:20 pm Posts: 3838 Location: Here Abouts
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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.
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Wed Aug 31, 2011 5:07 pm |
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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Maybe they have decided that petrol is too expensive and too valuable to be able to steal easily. 
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Thu Sep 01, 2011 9:47 am |
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Spreadie
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:06 pm Posts: 6355 Location: IoW
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+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.
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Thu Sep 01, 2011 10:03 am |
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paulzolo
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm Posts: 12251
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I see that have a faded actress and a couple of local sky pilots supporting them. I’ll wait for the forced evictions. It will be a battle getting them off the site. 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.
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Thu Sep 01, 2011 10:42 am |
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paulzolo
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Well, the eviction date has been set. 19th September. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-14785894
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Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:48 am |
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Amnesia10
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I also think that is why people do not want the travellers near them.
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Mon Sep 05, 2011 11:32 am |
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm Posts: 12251
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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: Told you it was inappropriate. 
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Mon Sep 05, 2011 11:37 am |
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MrStevenRogers
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:44 pm Posts: 4860
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nuke 'um from orbit. its the only way to be sure ...
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Mon Sep 05, 2011 11:40 am |
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm Posts: 12251
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If a few stray onto Billericay, I don’t think there will be too many tears shed.
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Mon Sep 05, 2011 2:26 pm |
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Paul1965
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:29 pm Posts: 5975
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Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:33 pm |
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AlunD
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:12 am Posts: 7011 Location: Wiltshire
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Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:24 pm |
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:21 pm |
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paulzolo
What's a life?
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A UN team will be assessing the situation. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-14911437What 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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