From the Advocacy Project
Fifteen months after they were evicted from their property in southeast England, the Dale Farm Travellers are still living next to their former homes. Iain Guest from The Advocacy Project (AP) assesses the crisis and looks back on AP's involvement.
The site was supposed to close down when 86 Traveller families were evicted on October 19, 2011 - only the Travellers never left. Most moved their caravans to the nearby access road (left), or crowded into adjacent housing plots (known as pitches) owned by other Travellers. The 2011 eviction has done little except cost English taxpayers a lot of money ($7.2 million), cause misery, and make the Basildon Council (which ordered the eviction) look heartless.
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