Object

Gypsy and Traveller Site Options

Representation ID: 56073

Received: 24/07/2013

Respondent: John Bredikis

Representation Summary:

Understand council is required to undertake this project. But site is unsuitable given serious questions about access, doctors, hospitals, schools, public transport and other facilities needed by the traveller community but which are deficient here. Also Baginton has existing Traveller site, at Siskin Drive.

Full text:

With reference to the above Warwick District Council proposal I would like to register my objection in the very strongest terms.

I understand that the council is required to meet the accommodation needs of the Gypsy community but it is hard to think of a more unsuitable location for this project.
Have the planning committee not asked the simple obvious questions concerning this site? Questions about access, doctors, hospitals, schools, public transport and other facilities needed by the traveller community but glaringly deficient at this location.
Have the Planning Committee not visited the site to note, among other details, that Baginton village already has a Traveller site, at Siskin Drive.

It would not require much effort to continue this list of reasons of the unsuitability of Baginton for this project and I am sure more of my fellow residents will have already informed you of them.
However, the most outrageous part of this proposal concerns the private land on Stoneleigh road which includes a local nursery. In the present economic climate it is completely unacceptable to propose anything that will effect local employment. The Nursery is a much needed economic asset and a valuable source of employment in the area. Any proposal that places a threat to this successful business is shameful.