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GYPSY LEFT COUNCIL HOUSE CUZ DEPRESSED WITH NO FIGHT & CARAV

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Gypsy couple who left council house because it made them depressed lose fight to live in a caravan on green belt land


By Daily Mail Reporter
4th March 2011


A gypsy couple who claimed they moved out of a council house because they got 'depressed' and suffered 'panic attacks' have lost their fight to live in a caravan on green belt land.
Tony and Ivy Baker appealed to the High Court in London after being ordered off the land in scenic village of Meopham, near Gravesend, Kent, by Gravesham Borough Council.
The High Court heard how the couple had previously lived in a council house in Coulsdon, Surrey, for nine years before upping sticks and moving to Kent in last August.

The couple told the court, however, that they didn't actually live in the house and instead lived in a caravan parked on the driveway because they 'got depressed' when living under bricks and mortar.

They even told the court that Mrs Baker suffered 'panic attacks' when she was not in a caravan - and that they moved to Kent to get away from the council house in Coulsdon.
The court heard how the couple moved onto the land in August 2010 and set up a caravan on the site illegally after claiming to have paid another gypsy a 'sum of cash' and sealing the deal with a 'gypsy handshake'.
The site, however, had been refused planning permission in 2005 after another group of travellers applied for permission for a caravan site on the same patch of green belt land.
A Government inspector at the time refused planning permission - ordering the former gypsies off the site, and in November last year Mr and Mrs Baker was also ordered off the land by the local council.
Mr and Mrs Baker, however, claim they had paid for the site and subsequently put in for planning permission for 'two touring caravans, one mobile home and a utility block with a kitchen, bathroom and toilet'.
Council barrister Saira Kabir Sheikh told the court that Mr Baker said he acquired the land 'from a gypsy handshake and cash' and he started living there with his wife and three children in August 2010.
She told the High Court that the family had 'no right' to occupy the land despite their claim that they had an 'aversion to bricks and mortar'.
She told the court that the simple fact that the couple lived in a council house in Coulsdon for 'more than nine years' before arriving in Kent proved they did not shirk at living in a 'bricks and mortar' house.
Defending the couple, Stephen Field, said that when the Bakers were living in Coulsdon they slept in a 'caravan on the driveway of the council house' as being inside the property made them 'depressed'.
He also said that Mrs Baker suffered from panic attacks when she wasn't in a caravan, the KM newspaper reported.

Mr Field also said there were not enough legal sites for gypsies in the area, and that by preventing the Bakers from settling on the land would 'violate their human rights'.
Mr Justice Lindbolm, sitting at the High Court, however told the couple, who are in their 40s, they could not stay at the site and granted Gravesham Borough Council an injunction preventing the occupation of the land without planning permission.
He warned the couple they faced jail if they breached the injunction, telling the court: 'The defendants are not helpless and they are not without lawful accommodation.
'I conclude that granting the injunction for which the council applies will not interfere with their right to a private life or family life or the private or family lives of their family.
Cllr Mike Snelling, Gravesham council leader, said: 'This case highlights the fact that local planning authority enforcement officers will seek to ensure that all individuals who breach planning control are held accountable.'
Whether the case refers to gypsy traveller families or a householder with an unauthorised extension, officers will take action to uphold planning control in the borough of Gravesham


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