Object

Gypsy and Traveller Site Options

Representation ID: 55895

Received: 08/07/2013

Respondent: Susannah Burden

Representation Summary:

Local amenities (doctors' surgery, school) is struggling to meet current requirements. Adding more demand will require additional investment.

No footpaths and limited public transport options also mean additional investment required to make site safe/usable.

The Fosse Way is very busy and dangerous when taking children to school. Adding more traffic will create treacherous travelling conditions and potentially more accidents/fatalities.

Full text:

I wish to register my objection to the proposed Gypsy Traveller site near to Harbury (GT02, GT04).

My concerns are as follows.

1. The strain on local amenities. Our doctors surgery and village school is struggling to meet the needs of the community at it's current size. To add more families to this would require a large investment of public money (which given the current economic climate is unrealistic) to adequately meet the needs of the local tax payers.

2. There are currently no footpaths and very limited public transport options close to the proposed site. This will mean that another significant investment of tax payers money to make it safe for the inhabitants of the proposed site.

3. The fosse way is a saturated travel network. The volume of traffic already traveling to jaguar land rover, and Aston Martin at Gaydon results in challenging and sometime dangerous travel environments for families taking their children to school in Leamington or Warwick during the commuting hours. If you add a gypsy settlement at the proposed sites along the fosse way you will be invertible be adding significantly to an already struggling transport system. This will result in treacherous traveling conditions and more accidents as well as potential loss of life.

These reason make it inappropriate for the site to be positioned along the fosse way and close to Harbury.

I would be very interested to hear your thoughts on the above points.