For ten years now Dale Farm in Essex has been home to a Gypsy travelling community , the Basildon council have now called in the bailiffs to remove the homes of the families off of the area of land which has been developed illegally .
The Gypsy community are claiming that there is a breach of human rights and are vowing to fight the planned eviction which is said to cost the lucky taxpayer £18 million pounds .
The Dale Farm site is the largest Gypsy community development in Europe and the council have said it will take up to two months to remove the families.
It has taken ten years to get to this stage, when this ongoing saga started out as an illegal planning issue but it is getting more complicated by the day .
Britain has become a land of very strict planning law and if you want to build on the land you own then you have to be granted permission to do so, I know of one family who had to have their house demolished because they built on their original biulding without permission and had to be re-housed.
The problem is that 1,000 people now live on Dale Farm and the local council are now embroiled in a battle to clear the site and return the land back to the protected green belt area it was before .
Where do they go ? What about human rights ? What about the children ? . All questions asked in hope of making this story into something other than a basic planning issue , there is also suggestions of 'ethnic cleansing' which seems ridiculous to compare this situation with the tens of thousands of people massacred in Yugoslavia and Rwanda under the same term .
Local residents have been campaigning for this eviction for years and have described the whole ordeal living within range of the Farm as a "complete nighrmaaaaarrre" as only our Essex accent can .
The local council now have the eyes of the world watching this situation and like many people i don't really understand why this has rumbled on for so long and the story will not go away , neither will the do-gooders like the actress Vanessa Redgrave banging on about human rights when people break the law, it is a shame when there are children involved and you wouldn't be human if you didn't feel sympathy for them , but how did the Gypsy community think this would end ? .
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