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Gypsy and Traveller Site Options
ID sylw: 54906
Derbyniwyd: 11/07/2013
Ymatebydd: Mr Jonathan Westley Stoot
Aware that there is a need to find permanent sites for a people that are far too often generalised about negatively. However asks the Council to reconsider proposed site at Warwick Exhibition Centre:
This site is not viable and risks significantly damaging the economic well-being of this area as follows:
*The Warwick Exhibition Centre site has the potential to lead to significant employment in the area. It is relatively in its infancy and needs time to develop. The impacts of the development of Stoneleigh was over many years, not overnight. This site in future years will develop to offer significant, much needed employment.
*This area is historically important. There are genuine risks of damage to an historically important area that has yet to be properly explored/matrixed; the site would require significant investment and changes to road and transportation links to make it viable.
*Historically this area has always been protected as it provides the rural setting for a the densely populated town of Leamington and its satellite villages. Ingress into this area with housing will deeply impact not only visually but on the leisure and health balance for the local population.
* Appreciate the need to provide sites, however, the proposed sites would have economic, historic and infrastructure impacts that outweigh this need.
*There are a number of alternative sites that pose significantly less risks.
I know it may be far too late/impossible, but with the radical changes being proposed and extension of building to the North of Radford Semele it might also be again prudent to consider (the viability of) a bypass to the village.
This opportunity for a bypass road seemed to have been lost when development begun around Asda without this being integrated into the plans for extending Sydenham, but there remains an insurmountable bottleneck to further major development outside Radford Semele because of the road diminution in the village, impact on the Village and surrounding listed buildings. The current main exit road through the village to Southam is not desirable, cutting the village in two with a major A road, although I am not sure now what alternatives remain given the Asda development which would have provided an opportunity to provide a relief road for lorries &c..
Notwithstanding this, there remains an argument for further reducing the speed limit through the village to 20mph, together with traffic calming measures, given proximity of residential buildings and, at least as I understand it, plans to further build in the village or its environs. If planning permission is granted for development, your seeking to determine the most practical of such measures and seeking costs from developers for their development could be of value.