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This site is completely inappropriate for a variety of reasons. The destruction of a local business that would result from the compulsory purchase needed is completely nonsensical. The loss to the local economy would be huge and I cannot understand how the council would consider this justifiable. The impact on the landscape would be detrimental as this area is viewed from a hill from several sides when approaching Radford Semele and could therefore not be effectively screened - it I could not therefore be integrated into the local landscape. The number of travellers would outnumber the residents in the nearby small development which would not 'promote peaceful and integrated co-existence'. The road is currently already dangerous and there is no footpath or lighting leading into the village and it's facilities. The only bus stop is situated at the side of the road,almost in a hedgerow, again with no path so unsafe for adults and children alike. Once in the village, there is no doctor's surgery and the school is already at capacity - the fact that the village is also expected to accommodate at least 50 new homes under the local plan means that these already stretched facilities will be even more overloaded. Finally the site is also close to the historic Fosse Way which is of archaeological interest, as well as historic woodland which would be adversely impacted by the site.