Dale Farm traveller eviction - 400 may lose homes - Basildon romany gypsy gypsies site August 2011

Travellers face mass eviction at Dale Farm.

Half the community at Dale Farm in Essex have been told they're living there illegally because they don't have planning permission.

They say they've got nowhere else to go - and are refusing to leave. The council expect the cost of policing the eviction could be more than £18million.

Soon after the end of August Basildon Council's bailiffs will move in for what has been called the biggest single eviction in peacetime Britain.

The folk who live at the farm are Irish travellers. Around eighty of their caravans are set to be forcibly cleared off the site. Around 400 people at Dale Farm don't know how much longer they'll keep their homes.

But the people who live on this site aren't squatters. They own the land here, the problem the council has with them is that they don't have planning permission to live on it.

Of course, the travellers here say that's because the council won't give them planning permission.

There may be a certain irony about a group of travellers who are refusing to budge. But many now appreciate the benefits of a settled life.

Six-year-old Jimmy-Tom Sheridan goes to school and is learning to read, which is progress for the family. His mum Nora didn't go to school and can't read.

Some have been offered council housing but the travellers don't want their community broken up and many don't want to live in houses anyway. That's always been hard for settled communities to understand.

The Conservative led council insist this is about protecting the greenbelt. But the travellers can't understand why land that was a scrap yard before they bought it can't now be their home.

They say they'll move to another site if one can be found but so far the council has not given planning permission on the alternative sites that have been offered.

Half the community at Dale Farm in Essex have been told they're living there illegally because they don't have planning permission.

They say they've got nowhere else to go - and are refusing to leave. The council expect the cost of policing the eviction could be more than £18million.

Soon after the end of August Basildon Council's bailiffs will move in for what has been called the biggest single eviction in peacetime Britain.

The folk who live at the farm are Irish travellers. Around eighty of their caravans are set to be forcibly cleared off the site. Around 400 people at Dale Farm don't know how much longer they'll keep their homes.

But the people who live on this site aren't squatters. They own the land here, the problem the council has with them is that they don't have planning permission to live on it.

Of course, the travellers here say that's because the council won't give them planning permission.

There may be a certain irony about a group of travellers who are refusing to budge. But many now appreciate the benefits of a settled life.

Six-year-old Jimmy-Tom Sheridan goes to school and is learning to read, which is progress for the family. His mum Nora didn't go to school and can't read.

Some have been offered council housing but the travellers don't want their community broken up and many don't want to live in houses anyway. That's always been hard for settled communities to understand.

The Conservative led council insist this is about protecting the greenbelt. But the travellers can't understand why land that was a scrap yard before they bought it can't now be their home.

They say they'll move to another site if one can be found but so far the council has not given planning permission on the alternative sites that have been offered.

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[sexyduck100]

I believe the facts prove that the travellers are relying on mob rule and fighting their case on legal aid, paid for by the settled community. It is they who want to discrimInate against the law abiding citizens. If they get away with it England will be invaded by displaced travellers from all over Europe. THE LAW SHOULD BE UPHELD.

[sexyduck100]

According to Ed Milliband Basildon Council should provide these IRISH travellers with alternative land to build their homes on. Does this mean that if i buy a piece of green belt that me and my family can call ourselves travellers then move on to it and demand that Basildon Council provides us with alternative land?

They bought this land at green belt price, not the building land price that i would have to pay if i wanted to build a house or homes for my extended family.

[zxrrsteve1]

I ill tell you were to go Ireland scum

[Seacadetguy]

I RESPECT THE GYPSIES!!

[Stu3100]

How much tax and council tax have these pikeys EVER paid?

They're 'travellers', so they should be used to moving!

[Seacadetguy]

@righttoright1 you sound like you're talking about the holocaust..

[Seacadetguy]

Why do people hate them so much? People called them 'scum of the earth' during the holocaust, AND NOW!

[LexiconDevilOne]

@Imanuelization

So, they owned the land. Did they have planning permission, uh no. Did they understand the land was green belt, uh yes, did they care, uh no. I'm American, even 'I' understand this, how 'thick' are you, that you don't?...

[bigrider2806]

@purplerain340 no one is interested in the way you live other than how it affects normal decent people . you are a virus and a virus has to be wiped out for the better good . sooner the better . you are your own worst enemy .

[purplerain340]

@bigrider2806 go fuck your self cheak of ye! dont no fucking nothing about any of us all ye see is the media. get a life, and keep yer nose out of travellers lifes if what u have to say is in no way nice or good!

[warriorbrookes]

look at when they stay on council fields or on tax payers land they stay until they are moved on AND look at all the nappies, dog shit, cans of beer rubbish these fucking animals leave behind!!! stick them in a fucking dumpit site dirty thieving scum of the earths

[Imanuelization]

@LexiconDevilOne IT IS ETHNIC CLEANSING!!!! THEY OWNED THE LAND, AND THE GESTAPO (BRITISH GOVERNMENT) KICKED THEM OFF ---THEIR OWN LAND--- WHY IS IT YOU PEOPLE HAVE TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING THAT, THEY "OWNED" THE LAND!!!! TALK ABOUT THICK!