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I am objecting to the proposal for GT05 land at Tachbrook Hill Farm, Banbury Road, to be used as a Gypsy and/or Traveller site on the following grounds:

Road infrastructure
The road infrastructure around the site is completely unsuitable for the types of vehicle likely to be used by the inhabitants of the site. It is on the busy A452 with restricted turning for vehicles. This is a very fast flowing road. It is also very close to the M40 and is very busy, particularly around peak hours.
It is already difficult to exit the village during peak hours due to the volume of traffic and the fast flowing nature of the road. If you add into this more vehicles and particularly larger vehicles then this will only make things worse, with no additional investment into the current road infrastructure.
There are no footpaths between this site and the village, meaning that any children on the site will have to negotiate a busy road with blind spots to get to school. It will also mean that any elderly or inform inhabitants will have a very dangerous walk to the doctors surgery and/or shop. ing the walk to school for children dangerous.
Flooding
This field floods every year and has done since I moved to the village. With the large amount of flooding this year the water spread across the road. It is also not a level site.
Village Facilities
The school is already over-subscribed and without further investment would be unable to accommodate any more children. If the inhabitants children were to attend another school further away then they would find it difficult to get to the school due to the fact that there are no footpaths near to the site and no bus routes to other local schools.
There is no mains set up nor sewerage facilities to site.
Visual impact
This site will be the first thing that people will see when entering the village from the motorway. The visual impact of this site will be devastating. House prices have already dropped and people are moving out in droves.