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Dear Sirs

Proposed sites for Gypsies and Travellers

I wish to object against the proposal site GT04 Land at Harbury lane, Fosse Way for Gypsies and Travellers.

My comments and concerns are as follows: -
1 Access to Local Amenities:
The nearest doctor's surgery has no capacity for the influx of new patients.
The nearest primary, junior and secondary schools are already at capacity

2 Travel
The site is on a High Risk travel route with more than 12 serious accidents in the last 3 years.
No bus stop is available on the Fosse way and providing one would be unsafe for road users. The Fosse way is already extremely busy and dangerous, especially from increased Jaguar/Land Rover traffic.
There is no path or pavement to walk anywhere - either on the Fosse way or into Harbury - and cycling is dangerous on busy commuter routes.
Children cannot be allowed on a busy road to wait for transport to school.

To make another exit/entrance onto the Fosse Way would cause extreme danger as the visibility on the Fosse at this junction is already limited and the traffic travels at great speeds. It is described as a "racetrack" and often traffic uses this area to overtake at great speeds.


3 Rural environment/Other
The proposed site will have a visual impact from Harbury and The Fosse Way.
The proposed site has no mains gas, mains sewerage or drainage.
There would be damage to wildlife habitats.

It is a flood risk area flooding at the end of Middle Road, Harbury Lane and fields and I have often seen the surrounding fields deep in flood water as the land is so low. Drainage and sewerage in this area would cause big problems especially as the land lies very low and is very flat.

There are high power electricity lines crossing over the proposed site.

There are many other issues already listed to include in my objection including local businesses, archaeology and heritage, urbanisation agriculture and rural landscape.

Is it not possible to find some brown area sites that would not take away from prime farm land and also brown area sites that would not involve the danger from speeding traffic, power lines, flooding etc to put the lives of any children and families on this site in danger?