UN and Amnesty International warn of 'grave breach of human rights' about to take place in Essex

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Dale Farm eviction set to go ahead next week

Its an ex fucking scrapyard for crying out loud. Hardly a rural idyll to be protected at all costs from development

Everyone needs somewere to live - councils don't provide sufficient sites, so these people have bought their own site, and yet still they are made to move on. As many as 110 children could now be made homeless.

2old,
They have been offered other housing. The parents were irresponsible choosing to move their when they knew it was illegal. they have known the had no right to be there for a decade.

How is it they can be offered accomodation when there are so many people in the area desperate for homes. I suspect what is happening no one on these waiting lists are not prepared to live in substandard housing. I do know of immigrant families placed in homes we wouldn't want a dog to live in.

Well said 2old2beamum

I used to deal with matters relating to travellers for a local authority and went out with a barrister who represented some of them for a while ( we met on opposing sides at a planning enquiry!) The genuine travellers I dealt with were reasonable people on the whole, I used to go and see them, ask how long they were staying - up to about 28 days usually - and they generally moved on after that.

Some travellers really know how to play the system. They buy bits of land and move onto it - the more complex the planning history of the land the better. Sometimes they divide ownership of the plots into lots of tiny pieces to make planning enforcement harder. The then set up large camps of caravans/mobile homes and play the system for as long as they can. Typically they have expensive legal representation and can string cases out for years. If they upset enough people and turn the land into sufficient a mess they often achieve the ultimate goal whcih is planning permission for housing. Some travelling families own properties that they rent out, or bits of land with planning permission elsewhere. It is miserable having one of these camps on your doorstep - I've seen the repercussions in bits of Gloucestershire. Even if you are very tolerant it will mean your house is devalued and you will not be able to moved. I'm afraid the children are just pawns in the game - a way of getting sympathy.

There are some camps they can go to - or they could purchase legitimate land to build one with proper facilities, but they will always look for an area to tryi it out on where provision is poor and they can add that to the arguments. This is just a business opportunity for them.