New structures

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Now it is less insecure some people have built some new structures and taken down many of the older ones.




Cops

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The new top cop came to visit us recently, he seemed quite friendly enough, less interested in a potential eviction and more interested in car tax etc. They also came onto site to help the fire birgade investigate a fire. And drug squad came onto site to look in a caravan of someone who used to live here 2 years ago, they didnt find a single spliff. In Matlock town new, blue uniformed community police have been threatening to stop public drinking in the park clock tower. Other than that we have been mostly staying out of trouble.

Birthday Party

Place An Alternate Description Here!d In October we had our 7th birthday party, with a sucessfull weekend event. 200 people came and got very drunk, A good time was had by all! The neighbours moaned a bit but it was not any worse than the bikers festival in neighbouring darley bridge the next weekend. And we think it is good for derbyshire to have such events and make thing happen in this sleepy little backwater.




Events

In the summer people went to some events to do stalls and raise awareness of the camp. People went to the Northern green gathering, earth first summer gathering, nockngorick festival, and did an action at the climate camp at drax power station. As well as going to help other protest camps.

old eviction threat

In 2004 stancliffe stone got an eviction order against us. In response 200 people came and sucessfully defended the camp, building defences and baracades. The cost of eviction & the bad publicity helped stop it from happening. A couple of months later the high court ruled the land use had changed from being quarry to being woodland and they would have to get full planning permission (no chance) and do an environmental impact assesment.

start of our camp

Back in 2000 the quarry company was all set to move onto this bit of land and quarry it. We occupied it and totally stopped them. They decided to wait a while longer for us to go away, but we didn't!

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