THE RIGHT of gypsies to set up camp in any of England’s most unspoiled natural settings is to be tested in a ground-breaking legal case.In what has become known as the Battle of Hemley Hill, nine traveller families who have illegally occupied an ancient site since Easter are applying to settle there permanently.
Lined up against them are 600 residents who say the site on the Chiltern Hills, in Buckinghamshire, home to a 10,000-year-old road first laid down by the Romans, is in the green belt.
It is also officially classified as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Counsel for the gypsies is expected to point to new laws passed by the Labour government instructing local authorities to provide them with permanent sites by 2012.
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