When was the dale farm eviction

Stuart Hardwicke Carruthers, who opposed the eviction, has claimed the travellers should be allowed to sell the land so they can move to suitable sites.

We pay for your stories! Do you have a story for The Sun Online news team? Email us at tips the-sun. You can WhatsApp us on July: Eviction notices are served by Basildon council giving residents occupying 51 unauthorised pitches 28 days to vacate the land. August: The campaign to stop the eviction gathers pace as actor and human rights campaigner Vanessa Redgrave visits Dale Farm. Activists begin to set up "Camp Constant" to help defend travellers.

Lawyers fail in a high court bid to halt the eviction. Travellers criticise the council after the date was leaked to the media before they were informed. Later, the residents win a last-gasp injunction preventing the council from clearing structures from the site pending a further court hearing.

Elderly Traveller Mary Flynn loses her appeal court challenge to her eviction from the site. A group of Travellers claiming to be from Dale Farm relocate to a public park in Luton. A judge rules that residents are entitled to an extension of an injunction stopping their evictions until the courts have ruled on the legality of their proposed removal.

Image source, Getty Images. About people were thought to be living illegally at Dale Farm in This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Image source, Google. Then and now - how the Dale Farm site has changed. The Travellers. A year after the evictions, this spot in Oak Lane was lined with caravans. As the BBC arrived, bin men were busy taking sacks away from outside people's homes. But he returns to the subject of his neighbours.

While some walls have barbed wire draped across them, some have outward expressions of the Catholic faith. When the BBC returned to Dale Farm this week, the site was largely quiet but for the occasional barking of dogs and the sounds of children going off to school.

The council leader. Council leader Malcolm Buckley says while travellers do not get a "fair deal", the law of the land must apply to one and all. Police officers and bailiffs surround the main barricade during the eviction of Dale Farm travellers camp five years ago. A protestor stands in front of a burning caravan during the evictions.

Dale Farm History. Image source, PA.