Object
Preferred Options Consultation - Land at Stratford Road, Warwick
Representation ID: 67317
Received: 21/08/2014
Respondent: Mr & Mrs Lee & Lucy Nash-Jones
Aware of need for Gypsy and Traveller sites and list of 20 potential sites, reduced to 5. Checked to see where sites were before purchasing property. Sites now reduced to 3, one on Stratford Road, not previously consulted on.
More housing will increase burden on local facilities: GP surgery and school.
Site not well placed close to M40. Smell from sewage works. Flood plain. Cost of flood defences.
Why is Stratford Road site more desirable than other 20?
My name is lucy Nash-jones and I currently work locally as a secondary school teacher and live with my husband who co owns Nash-White hairdressing in warwick and our little 18 month old boy. We have recently purchased a property on Chase meadow and moved in on June 18th this year.
As we were already living in Leamington Spa we were fully aware of the need to have permanent sites for travellers and that the twenty strong short list had been reduced to five. we did check the closes proposed site to chase meadows before purchasing the property as this would of impacted where we would choose to live and potentially our property value.
Suddenly these 5 sites have been discounted and three sites including the site on stratford road have all of a sudden become the preferred option even though it was not on the original list.. I find this incredible given that the initial consultations were done over a year ago. I feel this is unfair on myself and other recent chase meadows purchases and had the process been done fairly we would have had the chance to withdraw from the biggest purchase of our life. It is not just the worry of depreciation that is on our minds but the issue of local facilities. We have already been told that the local primary school turned away children in the catchment area last year and that the local surgery is extremely busy. Additional traveling housing is only going to make matters worst.
Apart from our own personal interest the site itself does not seem to be very well placed. The site is extremely close to the
M40 which is an busy motorway this cannot be good for the gypsies or any livestock that they keep. There is also an issue with the smell from Seven Trent sewage work which can be smelt from the stratford road and I have also noticed that the area is on a flood plain. This will cost more as flood defences will need to be implemented,
I understand that the travellers do need a site but how is the stratford road site anymore desirable than the other 20 sites? I am also very disappointed that one meeting has bought about this consultation and feel we have been treated unfairly. Is there anything you can do to help this situation?