CALL OUT!! Ontruiming Dale Farm (thuis 90 gezinnen)
NN - 03.09.2011 16:11
Dale Farm is het grootste traveler site van engeland, net boven Londen.
er wonen tegen de 1000 voornamelijk Ierse zigeuners en wat Roma, op grond dat hun zelf generaties geleden zelf hebben aangeschaft. destijds was dit een auto-kerkhof, en zij hebben dit omgebouwd tot hun leefruimte.
Nu moet het ontruimt worden vanwege een 'strijd met bestemmingsplan'
Dale Farm, in Crays Hill, Essex, is the UK’s largest Travellers’ community, consisting of nearly a hundred separate properties, lying well outside the village and made up of extended family plots or yards.
Most are owned by Travellers of Irish heritage, although some Romani families also own yards. The estate is divided in two sections, the front part (about 45 plots) has planning permission; while the back part (52 plots) despite numerous applications and appeals, has been refused planning consent, even though the site was previously a disused scrap yard! 90% of traveller planning applications are initially rejected compared to 20% overall.
Caving in to racial prejudice, Basildon District Council (BDC) has set aside 8 million pounds to demolish the homes in the back 52 plots and have set aside an additional £10 million for policing, of which the Home Office have contributed £6 million. Eric Pickles’s Communities and Local Government office have contributed another £1.2m.
Families have been given until midnight August 31 to abandon their homes or face a forced eviction. The community has said they’ll leave peacefully if alternative sites can be found, but Basildon council have refused to do so. We view the destruction of half this community as ethnic cleansing.
On the invitation of the community, we will be setting up a human rights monitoring base there, “Camp Constant” from August 27th, kicking it off with a training weekend. We are asking for people to pledge to spend a night there, as an eviction attempt is expected shortly thereafter. See  http://dalefarm.wordpress.com/hrm for more details. We also have activity days every Saturday http://dalefarm.wordpress.com/activity.
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