The squatted site, which was founded to oppose the nearby airport’s destructive expansion project, is facing a bailiff assault either tomorrow or on Wednesday.

In the shout out for “urgent support against a land squat eviction” earlier today organisers at the four-acre camp [map] noted that the threat comes shortly before their ninth anniversary, which is due to be celebrated with a weekend gathering on March 8th-10th.

The group, who run a large community garden on site, have weathered repeated legal efforts to push them out over the last two years following an original 2017 ruling that they would have to leave in 14 days. Grow Heathrow has worked under the threat of eviction ever since.

Set up in 2010, the squat was founded by five activists having been empty for years and used as either a dumping ground or for drug use. The group, which has grown to around 20, has since turned the space into a large community garden and vegetable growing project. People working on the site have been at the forefront of supporting locals in their fight against Heathrow expansion, standing up to dirty tricks from the airport.

In recent times the collective have connected with the Transition movement to form Transition Heathrow, with an aim to work to “build resilient Heathrow communities, capable of collectively coping with the injustices and threats of the economic, ecological and democratic crises.”

Main pic: An activist holds up a sign calling for the defence of Grow Heathrow in 2011, from Transition Heathrow