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Dale Farm Newswire
Travellers seek to ease tensions with neighbors
July 2, 2008, Crays Hill, UK: In an effort to create some goodwill with neighbors, Travellers at the Dale Farm site have asked to join the Crays Hill Residents’ Association and have unveiled a plan to plant trees to improve the area.
At a meeting of the Dale Farm Housing and Residents' Association, the Travellers agreed to plant 12 oak saplings along Oak Lane and invited Billericay MP John Baron to help plant the first tree. So far, neither Mr Baron nor the residents’ association has responded to the requests.
Tensions have run high between the Travellers and the surrounding community in Crays Hill for years. In 2005, the Basildon Council ordered the Travellers to leave Dale Farm because they were living illegally on the land. The Council reaffirmed the order in December 2007.
The Dale Farm Housing Association, a partner of The Advocacy Project, fought the evictions, and won a victory in May when a High Court judge halted the order indefinitely. The judge ruled that the Travellers could not find land elsewhere because of discrimination, and asked the Council to identify new housing plots for them.
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Bishops back Dale Farm Travellers
June 16, 2008
Basildon, UK: Clergy from Anglican and Roman Catholic churches in Essex, England are backing the Dale Farm Travellers in their fight to keep their homes in the face of eviction by the local government.
The bishop of Brentwood, the Rev Thomas McMahon, and the bishop of Chelmsford, the Rev John Gladwin, are jointly urging the Basildon Council to provide more sites for Travellers, and expressing their concerns about the Council's plans to appeal a May 9 High Court ruling that stopped the eviction indefinitely.
The Dale Farm Housing Association, a partner of The Advocacy Project, has been fighting for the settlement since 2005, when the Council ordered the Travellers to leave Dale Farm because they were living illegally and without planning permission. The Council reaffirmed the order in December 2007. The High Court judge ruled in May that the Travellers could not find land elsewhere because of discrimination, and asked the Council to identify new housing plots for them.
The earliest an appeal hearing could be held would be October.
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