Object

Gypsy and Traveller Site Options

Representation ID: 55560

Received: 29/07/2013

Respondent: Arthur Poolton

Representation Summary:

Green Belt - should remain so.
Impact on elderly/retired residents. History of adverse impact on public house in close proximity.
Impact on property value and local investment.
No shops, school, surgery, police station or other facilities for support.
Impact on landscape.
Other more worthy causes for public money.

Full text:

I would like to express my objection at the proposed traveller site in baginton, For the following reasons the area is green belt and farm land and should stay that way /the village is made up of a lot of elderly and retired people who would have little or no protection from the crime and violence associated with these sites /for example the site is opposite to the Baginton Oak pub and we all know to well what happened to the people running the Bull Butcher on the road to princethorpe when a traveller site was set up opposite the pub they where terrorised and had to close down and leave. Also the value of our properties will fall and no one will want to invest in the gateway with a traveller site on its door step. Baginton also has no shops, school, doctors, local police station, or any other facilitates to support these people. All of these sites very soon become a dumping ground and a blight on the landscape one only has to look at the site on Siskin Drive where the facilities that were built have been vandalised and boarded up all at the expense of the rate and tax payers.I would like to think that the money i pay in rates and taxes could be used for better and more suitable projects that will improve and enhance our community rather than destroy our entire way of a peaceful life in a rural setting.