The fate of Dale Farm, the largest Travellers' community in the UK, could be decided by judges at the High Court .
RALLY OUTSIDE HIGHCOURT CALLS FOR MORATORIUM ON CONSTANT EVICTIONS
A judicial review of Basildon council's
decision to spend up to £2.9 million
bulldozing the homes of 90 families
at Crays Hill, Essex, could go either
way - stopping an eviction or giving the
greenlight to the largest destruction
of Gypsy-owned property yet seen in
Britain.

A coach-load of Dale Farm residents
will leave Oak Lane, Crays Hill, at 9 am
on Monday (11 Feb) to attend the
hearing - and are calling on supporters
to join a demonstration outside the
court in the Strand, London, commencing
11 am.

The Gypsy Council, meeting at Dale Farm
on Saturday, endorsed the Save Dale
Farm Campaign and pledged its full
backing to the rally - which will be protesting
not only against the threatened eviction
here but seeking a nationwide
Moratorium on move-on operations.

"We want a halt to all evictions at least
for three years," says Richard Sheridan
chair of the Dale Farm Housing Association
and a Gypsy Council member."The Government
says it will take until 2011 before new caravan
sites can be built and we don't want any more
Travellers thrown off their own land in the
meantime."

He said the British Government was already
asking local councils, like Basildon, not to
carry out unnecessary move-on operations.
But this was not preventing police using the
notorious Section 61 to force Travellers off
roadsides and so-called unauthorised
stopping places.



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