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Part B: Commenting on the Gypsy and Traveller Preferred Sites
My comments refer only to site GT05 Land at Tachbrook Hill Farm (Green)

The proposed site will have considerable impact on the approach to Bishop's Tachbrook from the Banbury Road, making the village look more like part of an urban conurbation than a small and attrasctive place to live. This is likely to encourage further proposals from developers that may or may not conform to the new local plan.
The proposed site is adjacent to the Banbury Road which already carries heavy traffic, and the area in question is notoriously accident prone. Deliberately adding more traffic to the area does not seem to be helpful, and the means of entrance and exit from the site are not at all clear in any of the documents that I have read. I am not at all convinced that there will be safe access to and from the site.
The site may be in a low risk Flood Zone, but the T-junction formed by Mallory Road and the Banbury Road floods frequently in bad weather.
The site is close to residential properties and to a number of proposed housing developments. They will stretch infrastructure to the full, without adding further complications.
The landowner is against the sale of his/her land and there seem to be adequate reasons for not pursuing such draconian measures as compulsory purchase.
I object to the use of this site for the use of Gypsies and Travellers. I realise that it is not a preferred option at the moment, but would not like it to become a preferred option in the future.