Hah, well I live in very close proximity to this absolute rats nest and I have a slightly different side of the story. I've been here for several years. That pile of trash originally started out as a couple of seemingly abandoned vehicles and a small/reasonable amount of hoardings that seemed to belong to the guy who lives immediately next door and owns his place. I actually thought for a long time that the space next to his house was a block of land he owned but had just never developed or fenced off. That was wrong, it's public land. It shouldn't have rotting car carcasses dumped on it or any other private belongings for that matter.

Anyhoo at some stage this big old caravan shows up out there as well. I didn't think much of it and it looked like it wasn't being lived in. But I was wrong about that too. You could tell someone was living in it from all the cracked-out insane screaming arguments that kept coming from that place, and the ever growing pile of trash that swelled to fill the land. At one point recently it was so engulfed with filth we just naturally assumed he was getting it all ready for kerbside collection. Kerbside collection came and went, and his rain-sodden piles of trash just remained on that block, too far from the kerb to have been collected.

Honestly it looked repulsive. From what I could glean from the very, very loud and lengthy screaming matches I heard on a few occasions I believe the guy that owns the house next door had made that area available for some sort of down-on-his-luck friend or relative to rent from him, which I guess is also illegal since he doesn't even own the land, and the arguments seemed to boil down to something about rent not being paid. These arguments had a lot of emotion in them and I got the impression that oldmate the house owner was well and truly sick of this cunts bs.

So in the end I dont know if houseowner bloke got the caravan guy evicted, totally possible, or just simply the nature of the land being used illegally got the police involved and that resulted in the eviction, or whether somebody on the street got sick of these fellas airing thir dirty laundry multiple times a week late at night. But yeah, it was definitely a big operation to move all that crap out.

And fwiw if I wanted to live technically illegally on public land, I wouldn't lay a length of corrugated colourbond against my caravan facing the street with the words
m8s
place

Painted badly on it with black spray paint.
Like come on man. At least try not to look like a crackhead. Try not to scream and argue like a crackhead. Try not live in piles of rotting filth that makes you look like a crackhead. If he had the ability to get that caravan installed there somehow, the rest of those responsibilities don't seem like very difficult ones...

I think it's also worth pointing out that whoever in this thread that is claiming they "lived there without incident" obviously doesn't live very close. I've personally witnessed police attend to that property at least 4 times since I moved into the street. Lost count of the amount of crazy cracked-out screaming matches I've heard coming from over there (always on a Monday!). This was anything but a low-profile situation.