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The closer to May 5th we get the more I worry about your proposal to put a permanent travellers site at the location you define as GT19. I feel it is really not adequate in any way, I would not like to live between a canal & a very busy main road & certainly not to bring up children in that environment. It would be very unhealthy to have children breathing in the air between these two polluted areas. Will there be a GP surgery large enough to deal with all the ensuing health issues? Will there still be room for the Camping & Caravan Club ( or the Caravan & Camping Club, you quote both in the booklet issued ) or will this now be a loss of business for the area? Will there be any proviso in the contract for the area to be kept clean & tidy, if it isn't who pays for it? Is it really going to be good for Warwick's tourist industry for traffic to be able to view this on the way to Warwick? As the road is so much higher than the site it cannot be screened. How is it going to be screened from the canal, yet another industry that brings money into the area?

This is meant to be green belt is it not. To suddenly have five more families living on the Birmingham Road just there will somewhat overwhelm the people that already live there. The entrance to the proposed site will not be off the main road as you put in your printed plan but on the corner of the main road & Ugly Bridge Road. This will be an accident waiting to happen. The Birmingham Road has already had several fatal accidents in the last few years plus many more collisions how on earth do you propose to keep it safe enough for heavy lorries & caravans to slow down & turn in or across the traffic into Ugly Bridge Road & then block both The Birmingham Road & Ugly Bridge Road while the steep turn is negotiated on a very frequent basis? I am aware you had a traffic consultant to view this area but were they given the correct information to assess this situation, dare I ask, were they the consultants used to redesign the High Street/Jury Street change, if so I'm afraid I would give them a vote of no confidence.

If you care to look at the bigger picture, you are also proposing to build 70/90 more houses on Hatton Park, the Birmingham Road is going to be more of a disaster area then than it is now! How are you proposing to deal with the massive traffic jams that are going to develop, it's bad enough now but by the time you have added another 200 cars from Hatton Park plus the travellers site traffic leaving at the same time the rush hour will be a complete nightmare of your making.

I am aware the Council will request payment of Council Tax from the travellers, it will be interesting to see if you ever receive it, will the travellers families be fined £60 every time they take their children out of school or are they exempt from this? If both the GT19 site goes ahead & the 70/90 houses are built on Hatton Park will we all drop down a band of Council Tax to compensate for all aggravation we will have to put up with once this wonderful area becomes noisy & busy, I believe most people have bought houses here purely because of it's present situation, we now will have the noise from the extended runway at Birmingham Airport, the chaos caused by the siting of the travellers site plus more houses built to add to the melee. What has the Council got against Hatton Park?

I do so hope you reconsider the siting of both the travellers site & the extra housing. You are meant to be custodians of Warwick, please do not overstep the mark.