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Representation ID: 67465

Received: 12/12/2014

Respondent: Mr Paul Preston

Unless access is via the island used by STWA, the only access is from the old Barford road onto a dangerous and blind bend. The old road is a major path for walkers and cyclists to the footbridge over the motorway. The road would not cope with another 45 cars, trucks and caravans.
My existing farm track to the site cannot meet the requirements and should not even be considered. It is only 3 metres wide, national guidelines require 5 metres, and it cannot be widened because there is the brook on one side and my verge, which is not available, and my 51 mature trees on the other side. National guidelines require overtaking spaces and there is not anywhere on the track for overtaking; additional land will not be made available by me.
The track is usually in a poor state of repair; the weight of an additional 45 vehicles would make it unusable. Access is also hampered for high sided vehicles. It follows that any contractors or construction vehicles wishing to attend the site to put in the infrastructure will be hampered severely.
The potential costs of laying in water, sewerage etc. have not been identified.
Furthermore, the laying in of the infrastructure would almost certainly have to go over my land and it is not available.
M40 can be viewed to the south west from the site when I have finished cutting and laying my hedge, and the prevailing wind from that direction carries the noise from the M40 straight to the site. Noise levels are already above guidelines for residential development (the report obtained by Warwick D C is flawed) and no mention is made of screening the nosiest side.
National guidelines require a site to be safe for families and children. The site backs on to the River Avon.
National guidelines require that sites should not become enclosed ghettos; the site will become a ghetto if it is to be screened on all its sides to make the river banks secure and, in a forlorn attempt, to cut out the noise of the M40.
The site would never be granted a permission for residential use; why would permission be given for residential caravans, not insulated from the noise of the M40?
It is difficult to understand how infrastructure requirements could be met within the confines of the cordon sanitaire around Severn Trent's works.