{"id":568966,"date":"2026-05-06T09:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/568966\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:04:09","slug":"essex-willows-green-four-acre-traveller-site-illegally-built-over-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/568966\/","title":{"rendered":"Essex Willows Green four-acre traveller site &#8216;illegally built&#8217; over weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Residents described how about 30 lorries delivered hardcore materials under the cover of darkness as work began on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking anonymously, one said: &#8220;It felt like a military operation. The sheer scale and enormity of it is breathtaking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They added: &#8220;They have ploughed through with no apparent consideration for wildlife, ecology, pollution, drainage &#8211; all of the things that need to be taken into account when you are developing any site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just railroaded, and that&#8217;s unbelievable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Drone images taken at the site show what appears to be individual, fenced-off plots being created on the concreted land.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tracy Williams, who has lived nearby for a decade, said people had been &#8220;really upset, scared, intimidated&#8221; about what was going on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It just feels really frustrating and uncomfortable,&#8221; said the 42-year-old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents described how about 30 lorries delivered hardcore materials under the cover of darkness as work began on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-568966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}