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I have today read your "Local Plan" for the Warwick District area and I have to say that your ideas for development in Kenilworth are a complete load of rubbish.

"Development Site 7 - Thickthorn, Kenilworth - 770 houses, plus employment, open space and community facilities."

Have you been to this area lately? Do you know how narrow and bending the roads are? Do you know how much traffic already goes via this area? Do you know that the schools, doctors, dentists and other local facilities are already over subscribed? Have you for one moment done any real work on this area or did you just look at a map and pull out this rubbish from your head?

Are the 770 houses going to be more 5 or 6 bedroom houses like you've allowed to be built for the past decade that no local 2nd or 3rd generation resident can afford, just to appease commuters, Waitrose shoppers and relocated government workers? Or are you going to build a ghetto of the like in Rugby or like on Common Lane/Dalehouse Lane with no where for people to park? What are your projections for what employers would move into this area as that data is nowhere to be found. As for open spaces, you want to concrete over that, what about the Warden Cricket club (I played there as a kid) I have friends who play for Kenilworth Rugby Club and your plans just wash over those places like they don't exist. More community facilities, it would be nice if the ones we had were up to scratch in the first place!
On a more serious and troubling matter, I noticed that one options is to create a site for "Gypsies & Travellers", I work in a local business on Warwick Road and for years we've had to put up with violence, loss of trade, theft and all manner of horrors when the gypsies come to town for the horse fair (that you do nothing stop may I add) and I will not see that area turned into a travellers camp! I will do whatever it takes to stop it! I will not let my town be overrun by travellers just to alleviate the conscious of some overpaid councillor