Activists and campaigners from across the region are now a firmly established neighborhood at the camp, replete with kitchen and social facilities for 100 and a generous renewable energy supply in the form of a large wind turbine. The inhabitants are now busy attending a packed workshop schedule and planning for a day of mass action, taking place across Sunday 19th August and Monday 20th August.

The camp, including members of West Midlands neighborhood, have been on the receiving end of a systematic and aggressive policing strategy, including unlawful arrest and arbitrary detention, assault, and bullying and harassment by police intelligence teams.This culminated in a dramatic confrontation on Tuesday night when a group of around 20 policemen, who attempted to force themselves and an intelligence team on site, were surrounded and peacefully forced off site by a large group of camp activists. Tensions ran high in the ensuing standoff at the camp boundary as police riot teams began to arrive at the gates, only de-escalating with an apparent change of police command.