been an injunction, and in the light of the Wolverhampton case, there was consideration as to the form of the injunction.
Background
8. The background to this application is set out in the first witness statement of Emma Bethell. A short summary is as follows. The original injunction to which reference was made above of 4 April 2019 was against 85 named defendants and persons unknown for a period of five years. It prohibits the forming of unauthorised encampments and the depositing of controlled waste. The injunction does not provide for an exclusion zone, so that the travelling community is not prohibited from entering the area covered by the injunction or encamping lawfully. The injunction made applied to defined land within the borough of Basingstoke and Deane. The defined land covered just over ten per cent of the borough and was therefore not a borough-wide order. 9. The claimants sought the injunction in the discharge of their public functions pursuant to section 187B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and section 222 of the Local Government Act 1972 to restrain breaches of planning control and to promote or protect the interests of the inhabitants of their administrative areas, including to restrain acts of trespass. The first claimant is the local planning authority for the borough, such that it has the administrative function of enforcing planning control within the borough. The second claimant is the local highway authority in whom the adopted highways are vested. 10. The injunction was sought in response to the borough and the injunction area specifically, experiencing a high volume of unauthorised encampments and resulting harm. The evidence was that in the period between April 2016 and 14 June 2018, when the first interim injunction was granted, the borough experienced 158 encampments, 141 of which were formed within the injunction area: see the second witness statement of Mr Chris Williams at paragraph 22. The harm suffered by reason of the encampments included risks to public health including by the deposit of untreated human waste, threats and intimidation to inhabitants of the borough, various nuisances and financial harm to the
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