Cannydc wrote:A judge ruled the travellers should be removed from the site, near Basildon, Essex, to avoid the justice and planning systems being “brought into serious disrepute”.
Moves to evict residents are now expected to begin within days despite campaigners vowing last night to continue their legal fight. Families on the site also threatened violence in response to any moves to remove them.
The ruling was a victory for Basildon Council chiefs who have fought a decade-long campaign to remove 86 families from the green belt land.
The long-running dispute between travellers and the council is estimated to have already cost taxpayers more than £22 million. The 400 travellers, who live on 51 plots, had tried to block their removal, in three legal challenges for judicial review.
Too late, judge. It has been 'brought into serious disrepute' for quite some time.
I have yet to hear a reasonable explaination as to why these people weren't moved on within an hour of actually arriving at Dale Farm.
Just think - a local council that acts on the law of the land swiftly and decisively, and saves the hard-pressed local taxpayers £22m into the bargain.
Wouldn't that be nice ?
Fenella wrote:How many rulings are they going to have until they actually stick to one?
minjeeta wrote:Fenella wrote:How many rulings are they going to have until they actually stick to one?
Another farce, why are there so many tiers of appeal, each costing hundreds of thousands of pounds? There should be one court of appeal where the verdict is binding. Really, each time an appeal goes to another court you are asking one set of judges to rule that the previous set of judges don't know the law. If that's the case why do we have a set of judges that don't know their job, get rid and keep the ones that do.
Cactus Jack wrote:Planning rules and regulations in this country are a farce running at over a thousand pages and having, in some cases, a right to retroactively obtain planning permission. It desperately needs simplification.
I could agree with you but then we'd both be wrong.minjeeta wrote:Retroactive permission should be abolished, it is a charter for chancers to then plead victimisation, or get rent a mobs involved.Cactus Jack wrote:Planning rules and regulations in this country are a farce running at over a thousand pages and having, in some cases, a right to retroactively obtain planning permission. It desperately needs simplification.
Mark wrote:the reason that they weren't moved on immediately
is cos when they turned up
one of them was also posting a planning application thru the front door of the town hall
once done, they can stay until that application was agreed or thrown out.
its a great example of the stupidity of our law. tho if you were one of the many legal eagles round all this, then you would state that our law is wonderful
ker-ching.
lol
have they released their slaves yet
Fenella wrote:Mark wrote:the reason that they weren't moved on immediately
is cos when they turned up
one of them was also posting a planning application thru the front door of the town hall
once done, they can stay until that application was agreed or thrown out.
its a great example of the stupidity of our law. tho if you were one of the many legal eagles round all this, then you would state that our law is wonderful
ker-ching.
lol
have they released their slaves yet
But when was that application thrown out? This has been going on for ten years hasn't it?
minjeeta wrote:Cactus Jack wrote:Planning rules and regulations in this country are a farce running at over a thousand pages and having, in some cases, a right to retroactively obtain planning permission. It desperately needs simplification.
Retroactive permission should be abolished, it is a charter for chancers to then plead victimisation, or get rent a mobs involved.
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