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Council to appeal Dale Farm decision
11:51am Tuesday 20th May 2008
Comments (13)BASILDON Council is to appeal the High Court ruling which quashed its planned evictions of illegal traveller site.
Council leader Malcolm Buckley said the earliest a Court of Appeal hearing could be expected was October.
The council will also take its eviction decisions again at a future development control committee.
Councillors will take into account traveller needs, following surveys of individuals living at Dale Farm, Crays Hill, and Hovefields, Wickford, homelessness issues, and the need for alternative sites, as recommended by Judge Mr Justice Andrew Collins.
Mr Buckley said: "Our legal advice is we can take a twin track approach. This means whichever outcome is successful first will be pursued while the other is dropped."
Basildon MP Angela Smith criticised the council for spending too much public money on costly legal battles.
Full story in tomorrow's Echo.
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jimbo, billericay says...
12:50pm Tue 20 May 08
They have no housing needs as they have homes elsewhere. They have no education needs as they don't send their children to school. They have no health needs as this silly country gives them priority at hospitals. And they have no travelling needs as they don't appear to travel anywhere.
Their only needs, it appears, are to be able to break the Law and scrounge wherever they can.
Where's the organised protest then??
mike b, Billericay says...
2:11pm Tue 20 May 08
I wonder what strategy Angela Smith would prefer ?
Paul, Billericay says...
2:54pm Tue 20 May 08
Ben, Essex says...
3:50pm Tue 20 May 08
They are all settled where they are and just want to stay there.
What is the point in chucking them of there to just put them somewhere else in the District??
The Councils first place was to dump them in Pitsea, but why do Pitsea deserve them and Crays Hill Residents dont??
budgie, pitsea exile says...
4:11pm Tue 20 May 08
Trainman, says...
5:25pm Tue 20 May 08
milly, Essex says...
6:38pm Tue 20 May 08
evilc, essex says...
7:59pm Tue 20 May 08
EITHER we have law and order in this country OR we do not!!
Why not send the law breakers to Afghanistan where they can live in a real lawless Society?
Even real Criminals know when they break the law this lawless bunch are actually encouraged BY OUR LIBERAL ELITE!!!
I do not care where they go just hurry up and go!!
jimbo, billericay says...
8:14pm Tue 20 May 08
evilc wrote:Too right, Squire.
What the heck are you stupid people on about!
EITHER we have law and order in this country OR we do not!!
Why not send the law breakers to Afghanistan where they can live in a real lawless Society?
Even real Criminals know when they break the law this lawless bunch are actually encouraged BY OUR LIBERAL ELITE!!!
I do not care where they go just hurry up and go!!
Ready to march, Putsea says...
8:40pm Tue 20 May 08
BettyL, says...
11:39pm Tue 20 May 08
I about all issues a bit more here in Basildon it really would be a good thing.think if we started rebelling
I totally agree. It may be the people of Crays Hill affected now but it could happen anywhere in the Basildon District. Malcolm Buckley and his fellow councillors need to act, not just talk. How can they fine a chap £14,000 for erecting an extension without planning permission yet let Dale Farm spiral out of control? It's completely wrong.
Mike Paterson, Bowers Gifford says...
11:46pm Wed 21 May 08
Ben wrote:So if I steal your car, the fact that I managed to actually break the law and take irt means that you forfit your rights, and that it is now mine.
Why move the travellers of this site? they have already built over the green belt land, so its not green belt land anymore in reality is there?? They are all settled where they are and just want to stay there. What is the point in chucking them of there to just put them somewhere else in the District?? The Councils first place was to dump them in Pitsea, but why do Pitsea deserve them and Crays Hill Residents dont??
What an idiot you are!
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observer, basildon says...
12:47pm Tue 20 May 08
He quoted other councils that decide an eviction is needed - and then actually do it!
Stop being soft Basildon Council... we pay your rates!!!!!