It took ten years and cost more than £20million to clear Dale Farm.
But less than 24 hours after the clean-up operation officially ended, dozens of travellers queued outside ready to return to the green belt site yesterday.
With predictable timing, caravans lined up along the main road into what was Europe’s largest illegal traveller camp.
A traveller called Billy said: ‘We are going back on there and it is going to be just like it was before. The eviction was one big waste of money.
‘We are tough people and we are hardy people, so we will be back on that land and starting all over again'.
The line of caravans has increased steadily over the past seven days with many traveller families timing their return from Ireland to coincide with the end of the clean-up work.
Basildon Council, which spent millions clearing the site, was granted a High Court injunction banning travellers from returning to the site in Crays Hill, Essex.
The travellers have been told they risk being sent to prison if they try to start living on Dale Farm again.
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