We have read with interest the Local Plan on your website. We are aware of a potential site on Warwick Gates for development but find the plan vague with regards to Traveller sites in particular.
As residents living on Warwick Gates we are concerned about any further developments without extra infrastructure being provided.
There is no local school provision on Warwick Gates which has caused difficulties with gaining a place at a good local Primary school. We personally travel to Barford as with some other parents, to obtain a good standard of education for our children.
Other families we know are spread across schools in Harbury, Coten End, Woodloes etc. We are aware there are spaces at Whitnash Primary but there are lots of parents which would be unhappy to put their child in a school which recently has been in special measures. Briar Hill Primary School and St Margaret's our nearest school already oversubscribed.
The nearest catchment school for Secondary education (Myton) is also over subscribed which also puts additional pressure on the infrastructure.
It is unusual for us to take such a strong view and I am very liberal minded but we are especially against an local Traveller accommodation which as we specified above would put an impossible burden on our community and schools.
The recent difficulties which residents have had when Traveller sites have appeared on the edge of Warwick Gates has given us a direct insight to the problems which it can cause.
We know that it is a difficult decision on where to put these sites but next to an estate which is already under strain from adequate schools provision and which has first hand experience of living next to Travellers is not the place to consider this.