Travellers who built a caravan site in the shadow housing secretary's constituency have been hit with a court order banning them from living there.Around 30 cars, vans and diggers descended on a four-acre green space in the hamlet of Willows Green, near Felsted, Essex, under cover of darkness as the early May bank holiday weekend began.They ripped up lush greenery in Sir James Cleverly's Braintree constituency to tarmac the land and lay the ground for 12 families, retrospectively applying for planning permission.An injunction against anyone living on the site was granted on May 7, a decision upheld by the High Court after it heard it was 'fanciful' to suggest families were on the site when the injunction was granted.Sir James said the travellers were 'exploiting' enforcement laws by beginning construction on a Friday after council offices had closed for the bank holiday weekend.He added residents faced 'significant disruption' and said the timing of the work was 'clearly deliberate'.Caroline Bolton, for the council, asked a High Court judge on Thursday to continue the injunction, saying there was nobody living on the site at the time it was originally granted.In written submissions, she said it was 'fanciful' to suggest that families were on the site when the injunction was granted. An army of workers descended on a four-acre wildlife haven in the historic hamlet of Willows Green, near Felsted, Essex, within hours of the council closing for the bank holiday weekend The land had previously been lush and green. It was previously flagged as being at risk from traveller development An outraged Sir James Cleverly, the shadow housing secretary, accused travellers of 'gaming the system'She said: 'It is the claimant's position that at the time of applying for the injunction, the site was under construction, not an occupied site.'The defendant's position, in essence, is that there are 12 families with children all in occupation of the land prior to the injunction being served.'She continued: 'Regardless of the defendant's position, they are in flagrant breach of the court order and they remain so if their evidence is to be accepted that they are currently in occupation of the land.'Tahseen Choudhry, for the group of travellers, said they should be allowed to stay because of their right to a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights.She told the court: 'Why would someone carry their home around if they did not want to be living in it, if they did not want to be sitting in it?'That caravan is a home, that mobile home is a home, to the gypsy travelling community.'She also said the council had described the caravans as 'shabby', adding: 'As gypsies and travellers, that is their home, it is how they live.'It can be shabby, broken down, derelict, anything, that is their preference. No one can judge that.'