the Introduction to my paper:
This contentious issue is about travelers settling on an old car scrap yard site illegally; this particular piece of land was sold off to the travelers and they didn’t get planning permission from the county council. This is a problem for the Basildon county council because the travelers have nested illegally with 86 families on green belt land.
My Conclusion findings:
Police used stun guns of 50,000 volts, Len Gridley a local neighbor that had these illegal travelers at the bottom of his garden and has had several years of stones throw at him and verbal abuse, also said that the police were light handed not heavy handed as described by top politician.
Travelers clung to the nearest metal railings – and activists locked themselves to the railings and camped there.
Kate Alan of amnesty international UK
By 5pm the tower was cleared and the travelers were cleaned out, with several arrests taking place, with a man using violent disorder, a woman who refused to move her face covering {she will be bailed to southend magistrates court in November the 2nd} and a further 30 to 40 people will be taken to be questioned by officers during that day.
Abstract:
It’s a story of the illegal travelers applying in court about there illegal site wanting to be moved by the Basildon council.
Eventually Basildon council won the courts after a long delayed decision from the judge, and so the travelers blocked them self’s within dale farm making sure they were determined to stay. But then this brought the bailiffs and the police around to break through and clear out the travelers.
After a couple of days the police rounded up the travelers and moved them away from site, leaving the site as a no man waste land.
The legal side of the dale farm is now going into the courts decision to be removed as well.
