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the simple solution is find some land were they can move to.
it would be cheaper to buy a bit of land than spend millions on kicking them out.
they have said they would be happy to move.
everyone ones.
they sort of remind me of the families in the usa who live in the old ways. i forget there names. they were the same costumes as they did when they first arived in the usa. i think german background.
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They were offered homes and turned them down.
Seems they don't think the law applies to them. I wonder if they didn't want to move into Council homes has anything to do with paying rent, rates and having to be part of the system like everyone else. Like paying income taxes?
Just a thought because living in house beats living in a caravan with no proper running water and sanitation. At the moment their waste isn't going into the sewers, they just have a gutter laying on the ground that stream it elsewhere.
mafia_man half of it is green belt land and not for living on or a caravan site.
Caligari it does effect other people, the people who live around them. People who pay rates and taxes. They interviewed a man whose home borders on the squatters camp. He showed the camera crew a fence the squatters erected on his land. Also pointed out the effluent that was coming from the squatters camp.
He lit a piece of paper and pinned it to the fence, called the police to complain and the police arrested him.
They should also interview the residents.
Take a look at the Google picture and see what they've done to the area.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&su...ed=0CBgQ8gEwAA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Farm
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Dale Farm is part of an Irish Traveller halting site on Oak Lane in Crays Hill, Essex built on a former scrap yard and housing over 1,000 people. It is the largest Irish Traveller site in the UK.[1] The site has two parts, a legal site that has planning permission and a site where the land is owned by travellers but where planning permission has been refused. This land is classified as green belt and has been developed by the traveller community despite the lack of planning permission. The unofficial portion of Dale Farm is exclusively occupied by members of the Irish Traveller community, whose cultural roots are in the town of Rathkeale, County Limerick, Ireland.
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I'm sure they would be happier in County Limmerick.
Also this.
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While there has been a very active campaign to allow the unauthorised portion of Dale Farm to remain, largely from individuals and groups from outside Basildon, there is strong support among Basildon's settled community for the Council's actions.
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