Friday, 26 June 2026

Well, They Are Famously Law-Abiding...

..so I'm sure this will work:
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!  

2 comments:

  1. They will claim they are not living there, but just visiting.
    I wonder if these 'unoccupied properties' have been mentioned in The Squatter's Gazette? Popcorn time?
    Penseivat

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  2. What a clown show of a country we have become.
    There should be single traveller removal department based in the middle of the country with on call operatives available within 24 hours to cover the whole country.
    They could turn up with trucks, bulldozers and plant to remove all vehicles and caravans that did not move along.

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