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I attended the meeting at Aylesford School on the 15 July regarding the proposed location of the gypsy traveller sites. I understand that sites are needed for this particular group but am at a loss as to why there are so many of these proposed sites in a very close location to one another ie South of Warwick.

It has been proposed that South of Warwick/Whitnash is to undergo extensive building of 3195 new homes in the new few years, putting a huge amount of pressure on roads, schools, GP's, and Hospitals within the local areas. Great pains were taken at the meeting to inform the members of the public that the traveller sites were listed because they are not in "greenbelt land", but the land in question, such as Warwick Racecourse is very valuable to the community and is a real asset to the town.

I feel that the sites should be more fairly distributed throughout the Warwick District, even if that means incorporating some "green belt land", so that the facilities needed, ie schools etc could be more easily provided.

Spreading the sites out would be much better for the settled and gypsy communities, as condensing them in just one part of Warwickshire could cause a lot of ill feeling and pressure on already pushed to the brink services.

Yours faithfully