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Dale Farm was started in the 1980s when a planning appeal was won by two families against Basildon District Council on the southern end of the site, with the help of a Planning Law expert, Robert Home. Prof. Home stated that "I was first involved when two Gypsy families wanted planning permission for single family plots down Oak Road and we fought it against Basildon Council and we were successful." He also claimed that although it was in the greenbelt, even 30 years ago the area was described as mixed use. Also, "There were houses down this part of Crays Hill that were actually in the greenbelt, small rural businesses here, then the Gypsy caravans came in." Subsequently, the council ceded permission to 40 families before deciding against granting further permissions as other parts of the site were occupied.[3] The entirety of Dale Farm, legal and unauthorised, now contains about 100 families. The Guardian describes the disputed section as a "former scrapyard on seven acres of greenbelt land"[4] of which, Basildon council say: "The use of a small parcel of land in the north-east corner of Dale Farm as a scrap yard was established without planning permission in the early 1960s.[5]
According to its previous owner, the site "was originally concreted over by Basildon council". Basildon council deny this, although a contractor who worked for the previous owner said, "Basildon council regularly brought waste tarmac and rubble from roadworks and dumped it on Dale Farm for a period of 10 years until the 1990s." Basildon council says "it served enforcement notices against [the previous owner] in 1992 and 1994 and council contractors did not put down any hardstanding on the farm. The Guardian newspaper reported that "While Dale Farm has never been granted planning permission, except one temporary order by the then secretary of state, John Prescott, there have been a number of developments on green areas in the Basildon area recently."[6]
In reference to this temporary order, the government's Communities and Local Government department, in their report on "Site Provision and Enforcement for Gypsies and Travellers", dated December 2007, wrote:[7]
The site has a long and contentious planning history. Temporary permission was granted by the Secretary of State in 2005 with the intention that this would give the site residents and the local authority time to find a suitable alternative site. However, no such progress has been made, and the local authority has now received a homelessness application for the 400 people who claim that eviction from the site will leave them homeless. At the same time, opposition amongst parts of the settled community towards site residents has become ever fiercer, with parents from the settled community withdrawing their children from the school attended by children from Dale Farm

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  • Heil Hitler! Vee vill now bring in zee gas vans! welcome to "Cameronland" where Britain becomes the "NEW & IMPROVED NAZI GERMANY"!!!

  • @maizematt yes we are in the mist of the Nazi creatures. The UK is done for. "First they came for the travellers..."

  • @jackie901 a big thumbs up to your statement

  • Actually Dale Farm has been shut democratically, they have went through courts for 10 years and argued their case and for 10 years they've won but now they've lost after a judge ruled that way, so Dale Farms eviction is completely legal and if not for the EUSSR Human Rights Act for criminals, thugs and child murdering extremists we would have booted them out under English law a long time ago, the Travellers are sore fucking losers in my opinion and are anything but peaceful

  • WELCOME TO NAZI BRITAIN! HAIL DAVID CAMERON!

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