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Dale Farm is a plot of land on Oak Lane in Crays Hill, Essex, United Kingdom. Until October 2011, it was the site of an encampment of Travellers which had been established without planning permission〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.basildon.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=3976&faqdetailid=4003&inplace=true )〕 from Basildon District Council. The site is owned by members of the Travelling community and is located within the Green Belt. In October 2011, a clearance order was executed at Dale Farm after ten years of legal contention. To give contracted bailiffs safe access, some residents and activists had to be removed by police from the Dale Farm site – this action gained international press coverage. At its height, Dale Farm, along with the adjacent Oak Lane site, housed over 1,000 people, the largest Traveller concentration in the UK.〔Rachel Stevenson, ("Dale Farm Travellers: 'We won't just get up and leave'" ), ''The Guardian'' (Tuesday, 27 July 2010). Retrieved 30 August 2010.〕 ==Dale Farm== Dale Farm is a six acre plot of land on Oak Lane, near the A127 Southend Arterial road. Dale Farm has been subject to Green Belt controls since 1982. Next to the Dale Farm site there is an authorised Travellers' site known as Oak Lane. This has Council planning permission, and provides 34 legal pitches.〔() Dale Farm background〕 Dale Farm cottage was leased to Ray Bocking, a scrap metal dealer in the early 1960s. Land in the north-east corner was used as a scrap yard without planning permission until 2001. As a site for Travellers, Dale Farm was started in the 1980s when a planning appeal was won by two families against Basildon District Council on the southern end of the site, with the help of a professor of land management, at Anglia Ruskin University.〕 Meanwhile, Traveller William Saunders won permission for himself and other family members at the adjacent Oak Lane site after a lengthy legal tussle with Basildon Council from 1987.〔Jon Austin, "(How did Dale Farm get so big?" ) ''Echo News'' 9th December 2006〕 Mr Bocking said that the Dale Farm site "was originally concreted over by Basildon Council" (hard standing). Basildon council deny this, although a contractor who worked for the previous owner said, "Basildon council regularly brought waste tarmac and rubble from roadworks and dumped it on Dale Farm for a period of 10 years until the 1990s." Basildon Council says "it served enforcement notices against () in 1992 and 1994 and council contractors did not put down any hardstanding on the farm." Traveller John Sheridan purchased Dale Farm cottage and the green fields around it from Mr Bocking for £120,000 in 2001.〔Jon Austin, "(How did Dale Farm get so big?" ) ''Echo News'' 9th December 2006〕 At this time unplanned development started. There is an allegation online that plots were changing hands for £50,000.〔http://annaraccoon.com/2011/09/01/is-it-cos-is-victimised/ (personal blog of "Anna Raccoon")〕 New residents who moved on to the site did not obtain planning permission for their caravans and chalets. Various planning breaches were reported. The Council has said that planning applications for the caravans and chalets on the site were rejected because the land was green belt. Basildon Council first served enforcement notices in 2001 and the Traveller families brought legal action. The enforcement notices ordered that the land be restored to its original state. The Travellers residing there applied for retrospective planning permission, prompting a series of public inquiries. Each of these ruled that the site was illegal. A temporary order was granted in 2003 by the then Secretary of State, John Prescott which allowed residents two years before eviction. In reference to this, the government's Communities and Local Government department, in their report on ''Site Provision and Enforcement for Gypsies and Travellers'', in, wrote:〔http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/housing/pdf/roadahead.pdf〕 The site has a long and contentious planning history. Temporary permission was granted by the Secretary of State ... with the intention that this would give the site residents and the local authority time to find a suitable alternative site. However, no such progress has been made, and the local authority has now received a homelessness application for the 400 people who claim that eviction from the site will leave them homeless. At the same time, opposition amongst parts of the settled community towards site residents has become ever fiercer, with parents from the settled community withdrawing their children from the school attended by children from Dale Farm, and the view regularly expressed in letters to the local press that Gypsies and Travellers living on the site are somehow 'above the law'.〔 The site continued to expand and the Travellers residing there applied for a judicial review of the eviction decision. Basildon Council's Development Control Committee minutes state that: "In June 2005, once the two-year compliance period had lapsed, the Council resolved that direct action was necessary to secure compliance with the notices. It was this decision (reconsidered in December 2007) that was then made the subject of Judicial Review proceedings, which were heard in February 2008."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Basildon Council : Dale Farm site clearance – Key legal milestones )〕 The Traveller residents won this in the High Court in May 2008, only to see it overturned by the Court of Appeal at the beginning of 2010. In 2008, Essex County Council's Racial Equality Council funded a £12,000 community centre at the site, built without planning permission. The local Catholic church offered to provide temporary shelter for mothers, children, the sick and elderly of the community in two church halls. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dale Farm」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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