In our research methodology  I have gathered information from many newspapers, radio stations and the television, due to the subject being the latest recently solved issue.

The newspapers are the Essex enquirer, daily mail, Maldon and Burnham – the standard, Essex chronicle and the independent.

The Chelmsford radio and radio Essex.

Television news from the BBC and ITV Anglia region.

The reason why I are using these sources is because they are a proper source that is up to date and is not a second grade site by an individual e.g. Wikipedia. The Sources are modern reports from big incorporations at get the news on site, straight away and from the county council, etc.

Ethics:  the moral of the story is that these travels have to a bay the law and cant base camp in the green belt land illegally. The ethical problems I could face in this contentious issue is that it has not been logged in a book or journal.

Qualitative:

1.Why has taken so long to get rid of the travellers:

2.Where have they spend so much money, but not got any where?

3.Why are we tax payers paying for the travellers to go to court anyway?

4.How did they go to court for human rights?

5.Why  don’t the travellers just move sites offered to them?

6.Why did they use human activists  to block the entrance.

Quantitative : 

1. Because court case after court case, it wont make a final date to move them. Finally 11 years.

2. They have battled through the council, government and the courts to evict them.

3. Because of the legal aid system.

4. Because they were trying every angle to stay.

5. Because they would rather stay together.

6. As a treat to stop the police forces from breaking in and cleaning them out.

A Literature review of 250 words

Dale farm contentious issue

 The Dale farm traveler’s site at Cray’s Hill, Basildon Essex is a contentious issue about travelling families, putting their caravans on pieces of land that they bought from what used to be scrap yard and not getting planning permission to live there.

“Problems began ten years ago when two travelers bought a former car scrap yard on a six acre plot next to the authorized site, and subdivided it into plots which they sold to other travelers.”” to currently house about 400 people on the pitches.” in 54 homes of which 49  have been ordered to be removed.

This argument between Basildon council and the travelers lead to several court cases to avoid eviction, which failed so, the travelers then applied for human rights.

The decision by the judge delayed the eviction of the travelers several times within a month period.

This then failed on the 17^th of October when the travelers lost to the high court and the judge ordered the eviction to go ahead on the 20^th October and with in this month protesters started arriving in force at the gates of dale farm, they barricaded themselves in and chained them selves to the fence. When the police and bailiffs came to remove the travelers it was not peaceful, rocks were throw and taser guns were used but all have left.

The site was then cleared of the travelers on Thursday the 20^th of October 2011; the site is now being surveyed to see how to reinstate the land. 

Dale Farm : resources

Essex Chronicle:       Thursday 8th September  Front page

Ray Bocking } "sold the land ten years ago, who lives next door to travellers site and has no regrets to selling the site of 54 acre's".
"Its an ideal site , away from the main road, covered by trees".

page 4

" travellers Representative offered to sell there land to the council above market value in return for clearing the site."

 Essex Chronicle:       Thursday 15th September

Prime minister } " has lent his support on eviction
" Its a basic issue of fairness, everybody in the country has to obey the law."
" including planning permission and building on the green belt land."

Essex Chronicle:       Thursday 22nd September

" More than 400 occupations of Europe's largest illegal travellers, camping in cray hill."

" Gypices were granted a last minute reprieve on Monday."

"will be decided tomorrow {Friday} when a high court judge is expected to rubber stamp the eviction."

Essex Chronicle:       Thursday 6th October 

"High court agrees that eviction of 400 gypsices can proceed."

"Mr Justice Edward - Stuart : has told bailiffs that 49 of the 54 plots could be removed."

" walls, fences and gates must remain."

"taxpayer bill so far is 21 Million."

"Basildon Council, tony ball":  " heritage status is turned down."

Essex Enquirer      thrusday 22nd September

" travellers have won a stay of execution in their fight against eviction from illegal site."

"all our argument on that score has been turned down by the British courts - that now opens a way to go to court for human rights."

From your mind map work out an hypothesis or question to be answered by the paper.

From your mind map work out an hypothesis or question to be answered by the paper.




Dale Farm

Dale farm Questions

Where is the location of the traveler’s site?

How many people live there, how many homes are there on the site?

 Who is the council that are removing the illegal travel site?

 Who’s the spoke person for travellers,   Joe Jones - director of the Canterbury Gypsy Support Group and chairman of the international Gypsy Council?

 What country do they originate from?

How did the eviction come about?

Would it affect there schooling, medical conditions and children on site living?

Does cllr Andrew Bowles, a member of kents gypsy and Traveller advisory board and the leader of swale council want the travelers coming to kent or not and why?

Do communities want gypsy encampments in their areas?

Did it go to high court because it could not be settled locally?

The high court said how many plots and concrete bases could be removed on the 3rd October 2011 2:10pm?

Who is the representative in court for the travelers at dale farm?

Are they going to put a case to court against the council?

How long have the council been fighting to remove the travelers from this site?

How much money will it take to clear the travelers off the land?

Do the travelers have any outside supporters?

How many families will be evicted from this site?

How much tax payer’s money per traveler will it cost/

 Does this affect the local community funding/ who suffers and why?

How much money have they already spent since 2001?

How are the travelers paying for the courts?

Who is the founder of the gypsy council?

When did the problem start, with two people and a scrap yard?

Did the travelers who bought pieces of the scrap yard get planning permission?

Do the residents blame the travelers site for the devalued cost of there 400 houses? 

What did the court appeal against in 2009






hypothesis Questions:


Will they win the high courts 


Will the dale farm site be resolved and cleared of the caravans and rubbish. 


Where will the travellers go next

Contentious issue Mind Map