Object
Gypsy and Traveller Site Options
Representation ID: 60132
Received: 24/10/2013
Respondent: Mrs Joy Russell
Remote from GP surgery.
Schools are either fully subscribed or with few places.
Public transport satisfactory but irrelevant as residents will use own vehicles. Bus stop but no pedestrian links.
Prone to flooding.
Additional traffic on existing busy, noisy road with dangerous junctions. Fosse Way is high risk route.
No mains sewerage, drainage or gas. Electricity supply needs upgrading.
Poor phone and broadband provision.
Fosse Way is Roman road where there is likely to be archaeological remains which would be destroyed. Also site of tollhouse.
Impact on views from Chesterton Windmill.
Site cannot be integrated into landscape being at the bottom of the valley and not easily screened.
Small local community would be absorbed by new residents resulting in lack of integration.
Impact on local businesses.
Urbanisation.
Loss of quality farmland.
Major invasion into openness of countryside.
Result in ribbon development.
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