I have just been made aware by the Chase Meadow Residents Association that a site opposite the Longbridge Severn Trent Sewage Treatment Works has been selected on a short list of 3 sites for a permanent traveller site.

There has been no consultation for this (the original list of 20 did it include this site!) and it would seem this proposal is being rushed through by Warwick District Council. Having seen the mess and tension that travellers bring into communities when the travellers decide to use sites as temporary pitches (twice in the last 12 months they have descended on Chase Meadow!) I am very annoyed that this has only just come to our attention.

Many of the residents of Chase Meadow have invested substantial amounts of capital in their homes recently. This proposal threatens these investments as Chase Meadow will become a less desirable location for potential buyers. Additionally, the site is right at the entrance to the estate which will be not be a great advert.

I am not opposed to permanent traveller sites. I think that everyone is entitled to a permanent base, I just don't want it to be 200 metres from my home!

I'm not sure if my voice and others in Chase Meadow will be listened to as it seems that this is being hurried through. If this is the case then, like many others on the estate, we will be forced to sell our much loved home and move to another location.

I'd be keen to hear your views on this.