TRAVELLERS have offered to leave the illegal Dale Farm site to avoid the planned £18million eviction.
Representatives for the camp met council leader Tony Ball to ask if he would call off the eviction if they moved onto the legal part of the site in Oak Lane, Crays Hill.
On Monday, the Echo revealed the legal site of 37 pitches was almost unoccupied and would have room for many of the families from the illegal site.
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