Travellers who built a caravan site in the shadow housing secretary's constituency have been hit with a court order banning them from living there.
Which they will pay as much attention to as they do everything else.
Around 30 cars, vans and diggers descended on a four-acre green space in the hamlet of Willows Green, near Felsted, Essex, under cover of darkness as the early May bank holiday weekend began. They ripped up lush greenery in Sir James Cleverly's Braintree constituency to tarmac the land and lay the ground for 12 families, retrospectively applying for planning permission.
Its always bank holidays, but local councils never learn lessons, do they?
An injunction against anyone living on the site was granted on May 7, a decision upheld by the High Court after it heard it was 'fanciful' to suggest families were on the site when the injunction was granted.
Caroline Bolton, for the council, asked a High Court judge on Thursday to continue the injunction, saying there was nobody living on the site at the time it was originally granted. She said: 'It is the claimant's position that at the time of applying for the injunction, the site was under construction, not an occupied site.
Should be easy to prove!
'The defendant's position, in essence, is that there are 12 families with children all in occupation of the land prior to the injunction being served'
Should be easy to disprove!
.Tahseen Choudhry, for the group of travellers, said they should be allowed to stay because of their right to a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights.
A non-English origin lawyer....
She also said the council had described the caravans as 'shabby', adding: 'As gypsies and travellers, that is their home, it is how they live.
'It can be shabby, broken down, derelict, anything, that is their preference. No one can judge that.'
What are you talking about? We allow local councils to judge it all the bloody time!







