Sound's like your Council is on the ball Derek. The biggest fook up at Dale farm is the Council failed to nip it in the bud. For all your Council new you could have easily been a Gypsy.
The letter came to our home address, they told us we would have no problem gaining planning permission to put a single caravan on the land but it would cost us ?500.
Three fields away is owned by a guy with a plant hire company, he has his house built on the land & as well as having all his plant there he has about twenty caravans with his Eastern European workers living in them.