Dale Farm should be made into a mobile home park (From Echo)

Dale Farm should be made into a mobile home park

4:11pm Tuesday 15th March 2011 in Letters

Isn’t it time the Dale Farm charade was brought to a close? If it goes on much longer the cost of eviction will equal the national debt.

From the day the first caravan rolled on to the illegal part of the site, Basildon Council has been outsmarted and outmanoeuvred.

It is time to recognise the Dale Farm Mobile Home Park exists.

No doubt from the pictures in the press that’s what it really is. No one can call themselves a traveller when it needs two specialist transporters to move their “caravan”.

It very easy for the councillors to sit back and spend our money on a lost cause.

If there is an odd couple of million to spend I wouldn’t begrudge that if it was spent on a deep ditch and a lot of razor wire to stop the place getting any bigger.

Any surplus could be spent on compensating those who feel aggrieved by the presence of the “travellers”.

As a properly recognised mobile home park, the rules applying to them could be imposed (including the standard of the buildings and their replacement).

Bob Rust
The Slades
Basildon