Another Hometree destroyed - Dale Farm eviction

[auroraglacialis]

Originally Posted by Human No More

While some are fine, they are generally law-abiding in general, and will use land that they own and have legitimately gained permission for its use, or else designated sites. It's people who will park up on someone else's land or a public space, damage it and leave rubbish everywhere, fly-tip in local rivers and steal anything that isn't nailed down who won't care about laws regarding planning.

I am confused - they are generally law abiding but also they are people who do not care about law??? What are you trying to say with this ^

You'd be surprised - even where planning permission has been breached, you can usually get it applied retroactively where there aren't specific laws governing what can be built in certain areas. Not ever caring to try, on the other hand...

Yeah not even trying would be stupid. Which is why these people have applied and re-applied and appealed and took every legal step to get retroactive planning permission to keep living on their owned land. But unlike in many other cases by "normal" people, their chances were not so great and in the end they lost and within a week (!) after the last decision by the judge they were forcefully evicted.

Originally Posted by txim_asawl

I, having been among a group of "such people" living on the fringe of society am biased, too, and I share a lot of the feelings Aurora has shared with us.

Thank you for sharing your experiences with us. I had similar experiences up to now, though I never lived myself in such a way, just knew people who did personally.