Object

Representation ID: 60185

Received: 29/07/2013

Respondent: Councillor Philip Morris

The proposed gypsy and traveller sites are unnecessary and a waste of public money, heavily and undemocratically skewed in favour of a tiny minority.

The study behind the need for the sites claims to have interviewed 85% of travellers and gypsies in Warwick district, yet this figure cannot be accurate.- given that travellers are by nature transient- so how can a definitive fixed figure be arrived at?

This shows the survey and the study emanating from that is flawed at its core.

The proposed traveller sites have overwhelming public opposition.

To force any of the sites on the district's electorate and population will be undemocratic and contrary to the very European laws that putting the sites forward in the first place are being seen to address.

The study also concludes that many gypsy and traveller households now live in conventional housing and between just 23 and 43 households have a need for accommodation in the District.

If this is correct (but questions the accuracy of the figures) the sites should be located close to existing or proposed major developments of conventional housing i.e. within the major residential development sites which the new local plan should be bringing forward in a sustainable manner.