THE 6 ACRES IN QUESTION

IN JUNE 2012 -the Billericay Gazette visited again the site formerly occupied by the Travellers and found it in a sorry condition which prompted the observation that it had been -as was well known-partly used as a scrapyard but that was not so well known was its other use as an unregulated landfill site and rubbish tip.
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The independent video journalist Jason Parkinson filmed the former owner ,Ray Bocking, while he was visiting the site to talk to the residents and the media and he rounded on the the Council saying their version was untrue;he could recall that the land had been used for more than a decade for industrial purposes.Jason tells us that none of the National sources of news reported this evidence except the Guardian.They were not interested.Mr Bcking also told of the times when he was under contract to the Council to pick up abandoned vehicles and bring them back to Dale Farm.
In another interview he said that this piece of land had a poor reputation among locals who knew to what uses it had been put and thought of it as contaminated.Nobody would buy it off him-not even the Council until the Travellers came along.
He told another newspaper that he thought it was an ideal site for Travellers,it was shielded by trees and they had the skills to tidy it up and make it habitable.They deserved a place to live.