Comment
Preferred Options for Sites
Representation ID: 64406
Received: 02/05/2014
Respondent: peter guest
Objects to the proposed alternative Gypsy and traveller site GT05 Tachbrook Hill Farm Mallory Road on following grounds:
* the junction with mallory road and the Banbury road B4100 is an extremly busy and very dangerous junction at peak times.
* It is already very difficult to turn right out of the village onto the main road as there is an almost continuous stream of traffic at peak communiting times heading for the Land rover gaydon site, and turning right across this traffic flow is very difficult, with a high risk of collision
* There have already been a number of serious accidents at this junction, and any accident is likely to cause serious injury or fatality due to the fact it will most likely be a side impact for the vehicle pulling out of the village.
* As a former head of vehicle saftey at Bentley Motors is an expert in vehicle collisions, the likely causes and the resultant injuries.
* Any additional traveller traffic coming from Mallory Road can only compound this issue particularly if they are relatively big, heavy, slow to accelerate or towing a trailer which is most likely given it is a proposed traveler site.
* No additional risk should be added to this already dangerous junction and a traveler site entrance sited nearby can only compound the risk.
I would like to lodge my complaint about the proposed alternative Gypsy and traveller site GT05 tachbrook hill farm mallory road.
My complaint is that the junction with mallory road and the Banbury road B4100 is an extremly busy and very dangerous junction at peak times. It is already very difficult to turn right out of the village onto the main road as there is an almost continuous stream of traffic at peak communiting times heading for the Land rover gaydon site, and turning right across this traffic flow is very difficult, with a high risk of collision, there have already been a number of serious accidents at this junction, and any accident is likely to cause serious injury or fatality due to the fact it will most likely be a side impact for the vehicle pulling out of the village. As a former head of vehicle saftey at bentley motors i am an expert in vehicle collisions, the likely causes and the resultant injuries.
Any additional traveler traffic coming from mallory road can only compound this issue particularly if they are relatively big, heavy, slow to accelerate or towing a trailer which is most likely given it is a proposed traveler site.
No additional risk should be added to this already dangerous junction and a traveler site entrance sited nearby can only compound the risk.