Object
Preferred Options for Sites
Representation ID: 63858
Received: 04/04/2014
Respondent: Alan Gray
Warwickshire Exhibition Centre is thriving business employing 40 people and contributing to the local economy. Business will be destroyed with loss of jobs. Prospective business already lost.
Nearest GP surgery full and next closest 5 miles away.
Local primary school almost at capacity.
Dangerous to use road on foot or cycle and only bus stop on grass verge on busy commuter route with no footpath. High risk travel route.
Site could not be integrated into the landscape without harming character of area. Visual impact across valley gateway to Leamington and Warwick and impact on wildlife habitat and ancient woodland. Archaeological value next to Fosse Way
: Gypsy and Travellers Site Options, Site GT02. (Warwickshire Exhibition Centre, on the junction of Fosse Way and B425)
I am writing in response to Warwick Council's plans for a Gypsy/Traveller site at the Warwickshire Exhibition Centre. I wish to REGISTER MY OBJECTION to these plans for the following reasons:-
Warwickshire Exhibition Centre is a thriving business employing up to 40 people, contributing a substantial amount of money to the local economy each year. THIS BUSINESS WILL BE DESTROYED if your plans go ahead with subsequent loss of those jobs. This will in turn harm the local economy regarding businesses such as restaurants, bars and shops which benefit from trade from visitors to the Centre with the subsequent loss of employment of local people. I understand that the Exhibition Centre has lost prospective business already because of the proposed plans.
This site is not a suitable location for a gypsy/traveller site, the nearest doctor's surgery is full to capacity and the next nearest available surgeries are almost 5 miles away. The local primary school is almost full to capacity. IT WILL NOT BE SAFE FOR ANY CHILDREN to leave the site unattended, as there are NO FOOTPATHS OR CYCLEWAYS, it will even be dangerous for adults to use adjacent roads on foot or cycle. The only bus stop is on an overgrown grass verge on a busy commuter route with no path or pavement to walk on. The site is on a high risk travel route with more than 12 serious accidents in the last three years. Cycling is particularly hazardous on this route. Additional use of adjacent roads by gypsies and their vehicles will simply increase these dangers
The site could not be integrated into the landscape without harming the character of the area. The visual impact across the valley gateway to Leamington and Warwick will be substantially impaired whilst the damage to wildlife habitat with the site adjacent to protected ancient woodland would be considerable. The site is also on the Archaeological Register with ancient pottery recently found and is also on an Historic Toll site from mediaeval times.
THE DISTRICT COUNCIL SHOULD NOT ALLOW THIS UNACCEPTABLE PLAN TO GO AHEAD .