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My concerns are raised in connection with site GT12 (Westham lane, Barford). The main concern is around safety of people crossing the Barford bypass (a429). Should a traveller site be granted they would need to cross that road to gain access to local services. That road is incredibly dangerous with huge volumes of traffic. I regularly witness cars travelling too fast on the road, often overtaking and indeed last year, there was a fatality on that same stretch of road. To think we would have people actively crossing the road is incomprehensible. It would also be a hazard for turning vehicles or vehicles pulling in.

The second point of concern for the same site is around access to schools. Barford village school is already oversubscribed. Indeed even local village school children and parents often have agonising waits to see if they have a place at the school, quite often being told they may have to travel to a neighbouring school and hoping someone drops out so they have a place. A traveller site (or indeed more houses) will only seek to perpetuate that issue.

I am concerned about the issues raised in the documentation about potentially not being able to connect to a public foul mains sewer.

And generally I feel a site of this nature would place too much pressure on the small number of local facilities , e.g. school, roads through the village - already the village can be grid locked in the mornings), shop, public house, in Barford given how small it is in nature anyway.