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Part B - Commenting on the Gypsy and Traveller Site Options

I Errol A. Mews FRICS, Consultant Surveyor with Tayler & Fletcher represent Mr. and Mrs. Brian and Angela Lewis Hill Farm, Banbury Road, Bishops Tachbrook, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, CV33 9QG and I set out below his objections to any Gypsy and Traveller Site options on GT05 Land at Tachbrook Hill Farm and sites on GT09 and GT10.

Brian and Angela Lewis live at Hill Farm, Banbury Road, Bishops Tachbrook which is within GT05 and partly within GT10 and in total is approximately 90 acres together with the farmhouse and agricultural farm buildings. Hill Farm is predominantly a livestock farm with suckler cows and calves, breeding ewes and lambs with fattening cattle and lambs for market. The Lewis family have been at Hill Farm for over 30 years.

Further objection is on the following grounds:

Farming Enterprise and Agriculture
This part of Warwickshire is predominantly livestock breeding and fattening animals, suckler cow herds and calves, breeding ewes and lambs, free range turkey breeding and pheasant rearing. GT10 has a National Guide Dog Breeding Centre. Gypsy and Traveller Sites often have many many dogs of the lurcher/greyhound type and very often those type of dogs worry sheep and cattle and free range poultry. They are also liable to provide disease.

Highways and Safety Issues
GT05 and GT10 have a long frontage to the M40 motorway and in this particular section there have been a number of accidents where cars and lorries have gone off the motorway and crashed through the motorway fence. GT05 and GT10 also have a long frontage to the B4100 main road which is extremely busy with cars going to and from Gaydon Motor Centre where Jaguar/Landrover and Aston Martin are based. GT05 and the other neighbouring sites are adjacent to two half motorway junctions numbers 13 and 14. These junctions are extremely busy with all types of vehicles entering and leaving the M40 motorway with access to Leamington Spa, Warwick and elsewhere. The roads leading on to the B4100 are also potentially dangerous on the road safety angle. Gypsy Traveller Sites always have large towing caravans and anywhere along the B4100 and the adjoining roads provide a particularly dangerous hazard with slow moving vehicles entering or exiting a main road.

Services and Utilities
There is no main gas and no main drainage in the area

Rural Landscape
The area around GT05 is basically rural and agricultural and any proposed site will be a major invasion to the openess of the countryside.and therefore will be an irreversible urbanisation of the entire area.

Ecology and Wildlife Habitat
In close proximity to GT05 is Oakley Wood which is a 110 acre site owned by Warwick District Council. It was purchased for amenity and lifestyle living. If a Gypsy and Traveller Site was provide in the area, then the very purpose and use of Oakley Wood could be jeopardised if lurcher dogs were loose and firewood was collected for traditional Gypsy and Traveller fires on the pitches. Oakley Wood therefore would be a fire hazard.


Objections to any Gypsy and Traveller Site options on GT09 - Land to the North East of M40

As my clients have lived in the area for over 30 years they are aware of Red House Farm which forms the majority of the land within GT09. My client wishes to support the objection of Brian and Angela Smith, owner occupiers of Red House Farm and the same remarks regarding Farming Enterprise and Agriculture, Highways and Safety Issues, Services and Utilities, Rural Landscape and Ecology and Wildlife Habitat


Objections to any Gypsy and Traveller Site Options on GT10 - Land at Tollgate House and Guide Dogs National Breeding Centre

Some of the land is owned and farmed by Charles and Helen Hammond. My clients wish to support the objection of Charles and Helen Hammond and the same remarks regarding Farming Enterprise and Agriculture, Highways and Safety Issues, Services and Utilities, Rural Landscape and Ecology and Wildlife Habitat

Please acknowledge this objection