"Police cars arrived at the site in Sawbridgeworth at 12.30am on Bank Holiday Monday, where diggers had begun work on the land
A concrete base had been laid on the site alongside fencing over the bank holiday weekend
Planning enforcement officer Nina Johnson-Marshall arrived by car at the site at 12.30am with a High Court injunction following a ‘blue-light’ police escort through Hertfordshire
At precisely 12.30am on August 31, when Ms Johnson-Marshall arrived in Sawbridgeworth accompanied by a police patrol car and posted a copy of the injunction on the newly erected wooden perimeter fence of the as-yet-uninhabited encampment, what until then had been a civil case became a matter for the police."
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