I am writing in response to the proposed WDC GYPSY AND TRAVELLER SITE CONSULTATION with particular reference to GT05 - TACHBROOK HILL FARM, BISHOPS TACHBROOK.

The NEW LOCAL PLAN, which was approved last week, appears to set out a comprehensive plan for the district, taking into consideration the positives and negatives on the area as a whole, and the effects of all the proposals.HOWEVER one of these proposals is a development (H23) in Bishops Tachbrook south of the village school. If this goes ahead there will be 150 households, many with children of primary and junior school age needing a school place. BT village school has at present a one class entry and numbers are limited. The New Local Plan does not seem to have any comments on this. In the comments for the viability of the proposed Travellers site, it says that traveller children would be close to a school. But there will be no room for them as they will be further from the school when it comes to allocating places, even if the school grows.

Also the positioning of the site is on a busy road and junction where it is almost impossible to turn right out from Mallory Road in the rush hour due to the continual stream of traffic coming up from the roundabout.

I would say as well, though not specific to the traveller consultation, that Bishops Tachbrook is being surrounded by various proposed developments. We have a solar farm being built soon having received planning permission, the large development at Grove Farm, the development behind the school and three other builders trying to get permission and we are getting squeezed in the middle. Please can all these proposals be considered in relation to the whole effect on the village