Thursday - February 02, 2012

residents try to block illegal development of green belt. guess who’s told to move on?

This really is the craziest darn place.
Look at this. Group of law abiding ppl doing their volunteer best to protect their home grounds. The so called Travelers bought the property legally. However, they broke the law by developing on the green belt.  You do not simply go somewhere and dig up the land.  But they do it all the time because laws are meaningless to them.  And you must be careful how you speak to the mo****ers, or you could be banged up for raaaaaaaaism. Yeah really. The previous govt. declared them a race and so there are things you may say which in turn will be used against you. 
So then, a group of people are doing their best to stop illegal development but THEY are the ones now being evicted from their site.

Tear down your protest camp! After two years of protecting green belt against illegal traveller invasion, villagers get THEIR marching orders

Residents warn illegal site is in danger of becoming Dale Farm II

Travellers paid £100,000 to buy paddock - and moved in over bank holiday weekend when the council was powerless to stop them developing it.

Residents barricaded the site in Meriden, West Midlands, to keep out trucks delivering 1,800 tons of hardcore rubble

200 villagers manned camp to make sure the site is not developed - but THEY are given their marching orders

By ANDY DOLAN

For 642 days, the residents have camped out to prevent the spread of an illegal traveller camp on the edge of their village.

But now the vigilant villagers of Meriden are being thrown off their protest camp – while the travellers remain.

Planning officials ruled that the residents’ rudimentary shelter of caravan, tarpaulin and wood-burning stove constituted an illegal development and must be dismantled.

But the town hall has so far failed to move on the travellers, despite the rejection of their planning application.

The decision was last night condemned by the residents of the West Midlands village, who branded the move by Solihull Council’s planning committee a ‘disgrace’.

They warned the illegal traveller site was in danger of becoming Dale Farm II – a reference to the mass illegal occupation in Cray’s Hill, Essex, which only ended after a multi-million pound, decade-long planning row.

The Meriden travellers paid £100,000 to buy a paddock from a local businessman and, in time-honoured fashion, moved on to the land at the start of a bank holiday weekend in April last year – when the council was powerless to stop them developing the site.

But they had not reckoned on the determination of villagers to preserve the Meriden Gap greenbelt which separates the village from Coventry and Solihull.

As word spread, residents swung into action, descending on the eight-acre site and forming a human barricade to prevent a convoy of lorries from delivering 1,800 tons of hardcore rubble to the site later that evening.

Ever since, around 200 residents have manned their camp around the clock to make sure the site is not developed any further, working to a rota with shifts lasting anything from an hour to overnight.

Only last week they succeeded in preventing another eight lorry loads of hardcore from being deposited at the site.

But like their foes, the residents did not have planning permission for the camp – which stands on a builders’ yard driveway immediately opposite the gypsy settlement – and, last night, the Tory-run authority voted to issue an enforcement against it.

Planners ordered them to remove the stove, caravan and tarpaulin by March 31, even though the owner of the builders’ yard has given them full permission to remain there.

Around 80 villagers and members of the residents’ group Meriden RAID (Residents Against Inappropriate Development) packed into a meeting last night at the council house to hear the decision.

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Posted by peiper     on 02/02/2012 at 01:11 PM   
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