I wish to strongly oppose decisions being made about the development around Baginton.
The Gateway being the first joke amongst it all - no new construction is going to make the area richer - it may create a few jobs here and there but thats about it, there are numerous site like the gateway in the surrounding 5 mile radius that are not thriving now after being built for numerous years - units left empty, business going under, vandalism so why will this new development be any different. I dont feel it was a fair vote on whether it is good for the area or not - more like a back hand deal or two to ensure the casting decision was made with 'yes' votes. And to take away more of the green belt is disgusting - why not revamp current business parks and get them to full capacity first.
Housing proposed for baginton - 70-90 - where is the requirement for such a number of new homes - surely this number should be lower - an increase of that many houses is totally unnecessary and probably now wanted by most of us that already live in Baginton.
And finally the proposed Gypsy site just a short walk from my home in Oak Close????? We are a small village with not enough facilities at present, how on earth does the council intend to support this development with additional facilities or will the parish of Baginton miss out on school places to the travellers, are we getting additional doctors surgeries in the area? Will you be providing a permanent police presence if this development goes ahead? We already have three other developments close to Baginton so can you please explain why Baginton yet again is being dumped on - I cannot see how WDC are distributing these sites fairly across the District. The new proposed site is again on green belt land???? Surely there are better options that are not on green belt land.
I have never been more disappointed in WDC than I have over the last few months, The Gateway will never work, too much housing will turn Baginton into a small town not a village and another traveller site will ruin us all together. Security in the village alone will be majorly compromised. We have over the last year and a half had a major increase in crime, with the local team of police struggling to assist us all as the distribution in numbers of the police is very poor considering the increase we have had, the current team do their best but we already need a bigger police presence than budgets can allow so with all this growth it will only increase - an easy target to thieves. CCTV throughout the village would of helped deter but we seem to of been forgotten in Baginton and thats very, very sad indeed. I'm not financially well off, just an average person trying to live day to day, single mum (not out of choosing) working to keep my family going and I myself am in debt due to my burglary last year because of all the additional security I had to put in place and now with all this proposed development I feel we will be even more at risk of crime, local business will suffer and the Baginton I have lived in for 13 years will go downhill. I chose to live in a village because it is a village, will our house prices suffer even more due to all the development - more than likely, who in their right mind would want to buy a home near to a traveller site.
Please, please, please consider all the current residents in Baginton before you just green light proposals, I think the scale of development will just ruin Baginton and is very, very unfair on the area as much of it is on green belt land.