Why is STILL ok to attack certain communities? SERIOUS QUESTION!

[Southern Toon]

Most of the information we get about Dale Farm has come from TV news, which mostly focuses in on the site, the travellers, and their supporters, whilst banging on about Green Field development, illegally, within the Green Belt area.

It is easy to begin to think of leafy green fields amongst rolling hills as being where these settlers have arrived. Think again - Google Maps, satellite view, shows a slightly different picture.

Try Google maps yourself, and view online - Dale Farm postcode is CM11 2YJ - this link opens the Google Maps satellite view.

Approx every second field around Dale Farm has been developed in one way or another. Just one field away to the south is the Southend Arterial Road, and the south side of that has a huge area of commercial/industrial development, and a big retail park

Basildon was designated a New Town in 1949, and it is no surprise that it has grown hugely since then. Billericay and Wickford have also expanded significantly in the post-war era.

These three views, at different scales, are centred on Dale Farm. The online views show more detail than these pics.

Dale Farm - Billericay-Wickford-Basildon triangle:-
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Dale Farm - Crays Hill village:-
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Dale Farm - neighbours, northern border: Oak Lane, western: Pippin Hill Rd North, eastern: Gardiners Lane North, and southern: A127, dual carriageway Southend Arterial Bypass.

On these borders are several not particularly green-field operations, such as the Tesco/Boots/Mothercare/ McDonalds shopping centre, and Summerhill Garden Centre, Essex Garden Buildings, Elms Nursery Garden Centre, identified by Google in the view below. Above views show many more nearby unidentified industrial sites
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From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Farm - What is repeatedly referred to as Dale Farm was a scrap yard in the 1960s. The location is therefore better represented as being the Dale Re-cycling Centre.

This activity was not authorised, but on the other hand not closed down. Indeed local councils didn’t prevent waste from nearby road repairs being taken to Dale RC, and were surely aware that the material was then used to increase the area of hard-standing.

They have grumbled about all this, but not actually stopped anything, and have allowed part of the site to be developed, all this going back half a century.

Rewriting Anatole France - "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich and the poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." (Le Lys Rouge) as:

“Even the rich, with their wealth, their connections, and the help of expensive solicitors, might not have succeeded in developing their fields with permission, as the Gypsies have failed with theirs.”

Information drawn from BBC News, Wikipedia, Guardian, Google - thanks and acknowledgments to all.

I couldn’t find any photos looking out of Dale Farm, giving the view the residents see of the so-called Green Belt.

In reply to your last sentence here's a view looking out of Dale Farm, Giving the view the residents see of the so-called green-belt.
Dale Farm, Oak Lane, Billericay, United Kingdom - Google Maps