Object

Gypsy and Traveller Site Options

Representation ID: 54669

Received: 02/08/2013

Respondent: Mrs Catherine Weston

Representation Summary:

Object most strongly to proposed site in beautiful historic village with listed church. Already got huge industrial white elephant to one side. Not appropriate now to also spoil greenbelt on the other side.

In my experience, travellers prefer to be isolated from non-travellers.

There will be costs involved in transporting additional children to school and extra pressure on already stretched school places. Presumably primary schools will have to be expanded.

Wholly inappropriate development in green belt with serious impact on village amenities.

Full text:

I am writing to object in the strongest possible terms to imposing such a large traveller site on the most beautiful part of our village, right next to a listed church and settlement which dates back to Saxon times. Is it not enough that you have decided to plonk a huge industrial white elephant to one side of us, you now want to destroy the green belt the other side of us as well.

I have experience of traveller people through my work, and the one thing they appreciate is isolation from us non-traveller folk.
Consider also the cost of transporting all those children to and from their schools in Kenilworth at a time of cuts in services, although presumably you will say they will not bother to attend anyway, but instead roam around our village. Our children already have difficulty getting school places, you will presumably have to expand the primary schools to cope, even if they do not attend.

This is a wholly inappropriate development on green belt land and will be seriously detrimental to the existing amenities in the village.