Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Showpeople Development Plan Document

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GTTS DPD - Polocy C4S(008) The Lodge My husband and I are quite shocked at the above proposal. One wonders if this originated from a map exercise without going to see the actual site? In our view, having lived in XXXX, Bearsted for 42 years, Water Lane is most unsuitable for the type of traffic that would be used by the proposed people. They use large vehicles, large caravans and huge trailers for which Water Lane is totally unsuitable. It is a very narrow lane with no pavements and no passing bays. It is often used by horse riders from the riding school at the top of Water Lane many of which are thereby young and learners Water Lane is so named due to is propensity to flood in high rain and in our experience it actually flows out of Water Lane and across The Sreet, flowing onwards into the new building site off Cross Keys. The junction of Water Lane is in close proximity to that of Cross Keys and on a bend which is potentially dangerous in current usage. With large vehicles coming out of Water Lane the danger would be hightened. Even if their traffic went on up Water Lane north it would come out at The Pilgrims Way (an historic by way) which is wholly unsuitable for that volume of traffic and size of vehicle. Our limited knowledge of the type of site preferred by such a community is that they like to be off a main road where access is not restricted. We would recommend that this site be subject to further consideration and a more suitable one found.