Charles and Helen Hammond and family have been at Tollgate Poultry Farm for over 30 years and the farm extends to about 30 acres and is within the site GT10. The main enterprise of the poultry farm is breeding free range turkeys, pheasants and chickens. The poultry site was chosen and developed as a poultry farm as there are no other poultry farms in the immediate vicinity. If there was a Gypsy and Traveller Site within GT10, GT09 and GT05 then because of the travelling nature of the Gypsies from other rural areas, poultry diseases could be spread and that would decimate the breeding flocks at Tollgate Poultry Farm.

Further objection is on the following grounds:

Farming Enterprise and Agriculture
This part of Warwickshire is predominantly livestock breeding and fattening animals, suckler cow herds and calves, breeding ewes and lambs, free range turkey breeding and pheasant rearing. GT10 has a National Guide Dog Breeding Centre. Gypsy and Traveller Sites often have many many dogs of the lurcher/greyhound type and very often those type of dogs worry sheep and cattle and free range poultry. They are also liable to provide disease.

Highways and Safety Issues
GT10 has a long frontage to the M40 motorway and in this particular section there have been a number of accidents where cars and lorries have gone off the motorway and crashed through the motorway fence. GT10 has a long frontage to the B4100 main road which is extremely busy with cars going to and from Gaydon Motor Centre where Jaguar, Landrover and Aston Martin are based. GT10 and the other neighbouring sites are adjacent to two half motorway junctions numbers 13 and 14. These junctions are extremely busy with all types of vehicles entering and leaving the M40 motorway with access to Leamington Spa, Warwick and elsewhere. The roads leading on to the B4100 are also potentially dangerous on the road safety angle. Gypsy Traveller Sites always have large towing caravans and anywhere along the B4100 and the adjoining roads provide a particularly dangerous hazard with slow moving vehicles entering or exiting a main road.

Services and Utilities
There is no main gas and no main drainage in the area

Rural Landscape
The area around GT10 is basically rural and agricultural and any proposed site will be a major invasion to the openess of the countryside.and therefore will be an irreversible urbanisation of the entire area.

Ecology and Wildlife Habitat
In close proximity to GT10 is Oakley Wood which is a 110 acre site owned and/or managed by Warwick District Council. It was purchased for amenity and lifestyle living. If a Gypsy and Traveller Site was provide in the area, then the very purpose and use of Oakley Wood could be jeopardised if lurcher dogs were loose and firewood was collected for traditional Gypsy and Traveller fires on the pitches. Oakley Wood therefore would be a fire hazard.


Objections to any Gypsy and Traveller Site options on GT09 - Land to the North East of M40

As my client has lived in the area for over 30 years he is aware of Red House Farm which forms the majority of the land within GT09. My client wishes to support the objection of Brian and Angela Smith, owner occupiers of Red House Farm and the same remarks regarding Farming Enterprise and Agriculture, Highways and Safety Issues, Services and Utilities, Rural Landscape and Ecology and Wildlife Habitat


Objections to any Gypsy and Traveller Site Options on GT05 - Land at Tachbrook Hill Farm

This majority of land is owned and farmed by Brian and Angela Lewis. My client wishes to support the objection of Brian and Angela Lewis and the same remarks regarding Farming Enterprise and Agriculture, Highways and Safety Issues, Services and Utilities, Rural and Landscape, Ecology and Wildlife Habitat