Object
Gypsy and Traveller Site Options
Representation ID: 52663
Received: 02/07/2013
Respondent: Mr Riccardo Ficca
Grateful for the chance to respond to consultation in finding sites for Gypsies and Travellers.
Appreciate intention to allocate sites for temporary or permanent accommodation for this community.
Personal experience of Gypsies has been reduction in public order and security, anti-social behaviour, robberies and theft.
Recommend sites located at 'safe' distance from existing community/village/town. As Travellers, they are unlikely to want to integrate into the local community.
I'm grateful to have been consulted about the intention/need of the Warwick Council in finding suitable areas for gipy and travellers.
I'm appreciating that it would sign of civility allocate and organize specific area for accommodating, temporarely or permanently, people belonging to those communities.
To be honest, I don't have any personal preclusion for those persons, but I have experienced that the gipsies have been the cause of a significant and evident reduction in public order and security when they have moved nearby my previous location as: anti social behaviours, robberies and thefts.
Hence I'm strongly and firmly recommending the WDC to accommodate them at a "safe" distance to existing community/village/town as they are traveller so not really interested to be in touch to the Warwick community neither to integrate into.
I hope my opinion will be seriously taken into consideration and you will concur that the GT02 would be unsafely close to Radford Semele, Offchurch and several Primary Schools.