Council rejects need for fresh travellers eviction vote (From Echo)

Council rejects need for fresh travellers eviction vote

5:10pm Thursday 6th November 2008 in

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BASILDON Council has scrapped a second vote over evicting hundreds of travellers from illegal sites.

Travellers from Dale Farm, Crays Hill, and Hovefields, Wickford, were told to prepare new information on personal circumstances for a second vote next Tuesday, but council chiefs have abandoned it.

Crays Hill travellers put together a report after High Court Judge Mr Justice Andrew Collins said in May the council needed to take a fresh vote.

However, council leader Malcolm Buckley said: “It was considered there was no new evidence, so the committee would have reached the same decision to evict.

“We are confident the Court of Appeal on December 4 will overturn the judge’s ruling, allowing us to evict.”