COHRE Protest USA 2006

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Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions 8 N. 2nd Avenue East Suite 208 Duluth, MN 55802 U.S.A. www.cohre.org

01 February 2009 Re:

Threatened Forced Evictions by Basildon District Council Authority

Basildon District Council Authority Essex United Kingdom Dear Basildon District Council Authority, The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) is an international human rights non-governmental organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland, with offices throughout the world. COHRE has consultative status with the United Nations and works to promote and protect the right to adequate housing for everyone, everywhere, including preventing or remedying forced evictions. The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) and the Gypsy Council of England have received several reports and are deeply concerned regarding the upcoming proposed forced eviction of Travellers from Dale Farm, near Basildon, UK. Up to 50 families now face being forcibly removed from their homes in the largest Traveller community in the United Kingdom, at Dale Farm in Crays Hill, Essex County. Nearly 1,000 people live on the site, including more than 150 children. The eviction has been demanded by the Basildon Council, which voted to clear a large part of the settlement in May 2005. It said that sections of the site had no planning permission and has subsequently refused all attempts to regularise the situation, preferring the enforcement option. At one point the High Court rejected the decision to evict, claiming that the council was not offering an acceptable alternative location for the Travellers to live. That was overturned by a ruling of the Court of Appeal on 22 January 2009, meaning they will be moved on soon if an appeal to the House of Lords is denied.


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