With the nation-wide publicity given to the threatened eviction by Basildon District Council of Gypsies and Travellers from Dale Farm, Billericay, Professor Rob Home (of Anglia Law School and the Department of Built Environment at Chelmsford Campus) has been in demand from the media. His expertise in researching the accommodation needs and planning policy for this controversial social group has involved him in giving evidence to a Parliamentary Select Committee and undertaking accommodation assessments for several consortia of local authorities, in the Cambridge sub-region, Dorset and Surrey.

Within the last 6 months he has featured in an article in the Independent on Sunday, been interviewed twice for local radio, and appeared on ITV news. He has also been filming at Dale Farm and the Plotlands Museum in Langdon Hills for a forthcoming documentary from BBC Look East, which explores the policy history of the problem in relation to Green Belt. Rob is currently working on the legal and planning aspects of forced evictions world-wide.

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