They own all of it, have planning permission for most of the site but not a few of the vans at the back. The council sold them the site & have obviously got grief from the snotty locals so they have been pressured into getting them off by stretching the truth.
"Excellent news. Send them back to Oireland where they belong." What a stupid ****.Do you ever leave your burrow? Go to any country in Europe and you'll find Travellers of all nationalities. Edinburgh,best city in Scotland?Very true,I'm there about 4/5 times a year and thank **** I've never met a thick **** like you.
If they legally own the land (that is to say, they entered in a legally binding contract with the local authority, in this case the council) then, by law, they have a right to stay where they are. If i were them, i would sue the council for breach of contract, unless the contract was a set period of time, which has now vanished, in that case, they are legally obliged to move, or else face prosecution.
I've only just heard about this but I'm confused about one thing. These people are trying to block an eviction order to havethem removed off their land which they own and have occupied for something like 10 years. However they claim they're travellers. If they really are travellers shouldn't that mean they move around and not stay in one place? This is similar to a case in Somerset where a group of travellers set up an illegal site in a village somewhere in the area controlled by Sedgemoor District Council. These people tapped into the local power lines getting electricity for free, built on the land and laid down driveways before applying for planning permission. It took 16 years of legal cases before the district council backed down.
They bought the land outright off the council, not sure there'd be any contract as such. The case relates to the buildings on the site and the planning permission required. Originally x amount of families moved to the site after buying it and had planning permission approved to live there, build on it, fit mains for water, electricity etc. Over time more families moved there but they were refused planning permission becuase it was 'green belt land'. There are pictures showing it was not green belt but an old yard that was concreted over before the travellers moved there. Because of this they felt the council were swayed by locals not wanting travellers in their area and moved in anyway. Basildon Council now are trying to evict all of them as they are living on green belt land. There's a great documentary about it filmed by C4.
Often travellers have an area for the winter months when they are not travelling. Not all of them travel all the time either. They like to live together as one family & community, I've no problem with that, even more so when they buy land councils are wanting to sell. Better then them living on a park or something for all concerned. Don't know about Somerset. In Basildon they own it so its different to the case there by the sounds of it.
So what if it's green belt land? As the landowner, they can tell the council to shove off. I don't normally defend travellers, but this is just daft.
Well done Sharon ole babe. You've come significantly nearer to spelling "cease" properly. Keep fihgtiign.
I love you Irish with your happy-go-lucky, tra-la-la-la-la, we love the craic ways. Brings a tear to a glass eye for sure, for sure.
80 families live in those "few vans at the back". It might be an idea to familiarise yourself with the facts before you form an opinion.
Nonsense. Even if they bought the land for residential use they still need to apply for permission to start building on it. If I had done the same I would have been turfed out and forced to tear down my home and rightly so. They have abused the system further by appealing on the grounds of racism, human rights, etc which most of us wouldn't be able to do.
