Object
Preferred Options for Sites
Representation ID: 64430
Received: 05/05/2014
Respondent: Mr Adam Burden
Objects on following grounds:
1. The strain on local amenities. Our doctors surgery and village school is struggling to meet the needs of the community at it's current size. To add more families to this would require a large investment of public money (which given the current economic climate is unrealistic) to adequately meet the needs of the local tax payers. We have recently have Harbury fields phase 1 and 2 which has added many more families. When phase 3 and 4 are complete the strain will be even greater.
2. There are currently no footpaths and very limited public transport options close to the proposed site. This will mean that another significant investment of tax payers money to make it safe for the inhabitants of the proposed site.
3. The fosse way is a saturated travel network. The volume of traffic already traveling to jaguar land rover, and Aston Martin at Gaydon results in challenging and sometime dangerous travel environments for families taking their children to school in Leamington or Warwick during the commuting hours. If you add a gypsy settlement at the proposed sites along the fosse way you will be invertible be adding significantly to an already struggling transport system. This will result in treacherous traveling conditions and more accidents as well as potential loss of life.
These reason make it inappropriate for the site to be positioned along the fosse way and close to Harbury. At the consultation we were told that Warwick district council does not have any permanent sites.
It is only fair that the needs (school doctors surgery etc) of any sites be met by the Warwick district. Stratford on Avon district council already provides homes and amenities to the travelling community and so it does not make sense that we meet the needs of your districts travelling community as well as our own.
Understands that the report upon which the local plan has been based is fundamentally flawed and challenged by local MPs. Implores Council to suspend this project until thorough and unbiased research base on an actual need can be carried out and an adequate and professional consultation can be completed.
I wish to register my objection to the proposed Gypsy Traveller site near to Harbury (GT02, GT04).
My concerns are as follows.
1. The strain on local amenities. Our doctors surgery and village school is struggling to meet the needs of the community at it's current size. To add more families to this would require a large investment of public money (which given the current economic climate is unrealistic) to adequately meet the needs of the local tax payers. We have recently have Harbury fields phase 1 and 2 which has added many more families. When phase 3 and 4 are complete the strain will be even greater.
2. There are currently no footpaths and very limited public transport options close to the proposed site. This will mean that another significant investment of tax payers money to make it safe for the inhabitants of the proposed site.
3. The fosse way is a saturated travel network. The volume of traffic already traveling to jaguar land rover, and Aston Martin at Gaydon results in challenging and sometime dangerous travel environments for families taking their children to school in Leamington or Warwick during the commuting hours. If you add a gypsy settlement at the proposed sites along the fosse way you will be adding significantly to an already struggling transport system. This will result in treacherous traveling conditions and more accidents as well as potential loss of life.
These reasons make it inappropriate for the site to be positioned along the fosse way and close to Harbury. At the consultation we were told that Warwick district council does not have any permanent sites. I believe it is only fair that the needs (school doctors surgery etc) of any sites be met by the Warwick district. Stratford on Avon district council already provides homes and amenities to the travelling community and so it does not make sense that we meet the needs of your districts travelling community as well as our own.
I understand that the report upon which the local plan has been based is fundamentally flawed and challenged by local MPs. I implore you to suspend this project until thorough and unbiased research base on an actual need can be carried out and an adequate and professional consultation can be completed.
I would be very interested to hear your thoughts on the above points.