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of enforcing planning control within the Borough. The Second Claimant is the local highway authority, in whom the adopted highways are vested.
The Defendants
11. The defendants are the 116th Persons Unknown who are forming unauthorised encampments in the borough of Basingstoke and Deane.
12. There no longer is an application against a named person, the injunction made between 2019 – 2024 having served its purpose. It is a category of application for a Traveller injunction against newcomer Persons Unknown, as considered in Wolverhampton. The court is satisfied that procedural service requirements have been fulfilled. Service is considered later in the judgment under procedural protections.
The Injunction Area
13. Mr. Williams identified the land in the Injunction area as needing the specific protection of an injunction for the following reasons: see paragraph 23:
i. historically, the injunction area has suffered a disproportionate number of encampments as compared to the rest of the Borough. To that end, the injunction area, which covers just over 10% of the Borough, experienced 89% of all encampments in the Borough between April 2016 and 14 June 2018 (pre injunction). Further, in the period April 2019 to January 2024, the injunction area experienced 51% of the of all encampments in the Borough. As such, the inhabitants of the injunction area have suffered disproportionately the negative impacts of the encampments (which impacts I shall discuss further below); relatedly ii. encampments have been concentrated in a very small area, such that the negative impacts of the encampments (which I shall discuss further below) are often magnified and exacerbated; iii. the nature of the land that falls within the injunction area means that greater harm is often suffered when encampments are formed there. For example, the
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