AN ECO encampment is back on land off Magna Road – two weeks after the previous camp was razed.

A group returned to the site on Saturday and have pitched a large stove-heated tent in the middle of the field. They have begun planting, and set up a children’s play area.

It comes a fortnight after the Bearwood and Merley Organic Energy Community, who first came to the site in mid January, were evicted by bailiffs after a County Court ruled the group was trespassing and granted Borough of Poole a possession order.

Three people were escorted off site at the former Moortown Airfield following a five hour stand-off with bailiffs and police after they barricaded themselves into a straw bale hut.

Elisabeth Nolson, right, who is helping the eco group, the Dorset Community Trust, said this camp had been created by members of the community who had been incensed by what had been done.

“The community are not going to bow down to the unlawful actions of the council persecuting people for profit – they have created their own community trust and they have overruled them,” she said.

The group want to grow free organic food and create free energy for the community, as well as hosting a number of community projects. Elisabeth said 240 local people have now offered their support and involvement with the scheme.

She added: “Dorset Community Trust would like to ask the council, if you have a better proposal than feeding the community for free and giving them free energy which will reduce their council tax bills then we want to know what that proposal is and we will all back that instead.”

She said she expected people to keep coming back to the site, adding: “I am prepared to go to prison for this – I really am.”

A spokesman for Borough of Poole which jointly owns the land with Bournemouth Borough Council said: “We have applied to the courts for the reinstitution of the warrant with the aim of getting a new eviction date.”

For more on the group search Facebook for The Bournemouth and Poole Free Organic Food and Energy Project