LOITERING WITHIN BRENT A long standing travellers community is under attack in South Brent, Devon. Travellers under attack!

LOITERING WITHIN BRENT
A long standing travellers community is under attack in South Brent, Devon.
Travellers under attack!

There is a travellers community under attack in South Brent that needs support. The site has been there since 2007, and at some point had over 40 families living there. Since then some families left of their own accord. The public response has been in support of the site, the local people are behind the travellers and have no objections to travellers living there.

As it stands the site cannot be build on, it is in between two roads, a waste bit of industrial land. It could have been left to sustain the families that are living there now. A spokesperson from Marley Head said tunnels have started in the old service station fuel tank, there are two of them to play with. Two months ago there was a meeting between the council and the travelling community at the conservative club where, Sarah Wollaston, conservative MP, agreed they wouldn't come near the site unless someone complained. No locals did. The arrangement was they would let them stay until the school term was over. Dartmoor National trust weren't satiated with that. The council are now illegally evicting the South Brent traveller community and have cut their time from the 25th July to 25th June!

SchNEWS spoke to someone on site: “This is going to be another Dale Farm, we have families and kids here!”. If you can support please get down there and show solidarity! The site needs all the obvious materials such as pallets, pollyprop, winches etc.. and of course people power. There are old activists from Newbury there to get the spring chickens going. So get down there! Without help and support this will be another example of the Conservative government wiping out a community they do not deem suitable to their standards.

If you want to get in touch use their facebook page: Save Marley Head
Update from Schnews
ALL BRENT OUT
The travellers community in South Brent, Devon has been ousted out
The travellers site in South Brent has now been illegally evicted.
The eviction order was for the end of July but not so surprisingly the vultures swooped on the 27th of June, way before their allocated date. The site in South Brent is classified as commercial property. It cannot be build upon. So rather than having a community of people living there with kids in tow, supporting local businesses with their custom, the land owners would rather use it as a dump wasteland. They still haven't exactly explained what they are going to do with the land.
Schnews spoke to someone on site. No police or bailiffs turned up to evict them, but just three heavies from the Dartmoor National Trust. “They were trying to be forceful and were giving it large but ended up having to play it cool, as they didn't want a situation in their hands.” When people on site questioned the legality of it all the reply they got was the usual just doing their job spill. “They were being polite, but Hitler was probably polite.” The people on site put boulders up and set up ditches to stop them from entering and that got them ten more days. The land is not even owned by Dartmoor National Trust. It is owned by four people and according to the source SchNEWS spoke to not all of the owners were contacted before the eviction took place (so that is all totally legit).
Locals have not been informed of what the plans are for the site now that this community has been evicted. The local shops have been badly hit as they have lost so much custom. Who will eat the bread and drink all the brew now all those families have gone?
There are three people left on site at the moment. It is a beautiful spot to park up for the summer so if any revellers are out there that have some whoomph left in them, it is still not too late to join.