Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Showpeople Development Plan Document

Disagree

It is difficult to convey my alarm when news reached me of the location of this proposed Gypsy & Traveller site! The congestion here is already at capacity, with Bearsted’s narrow roads and country lanes, together with limited parking outside the handful of shops, both near Bearsted Station and near the few shops on the A20. Our facilities are currently already overstretched. In addition, two new estates, recently evolved, the large Barty Farm Estate and the more recent Roundwell & Crosskeys Housing development, have already put this small village under pressure with effect to all the points you have listed under “Planning Points You May Wish to Consider”. To add a THIRD SITE off Water Lane would be both unthinkable and untenable, with present circumstances in this village. I would, therefore, respectfully urge Maidstone Borough Council to reject this location for the Gypsy & Traveller Site Plan, here in Bearsted for all the reasons outlined above. I have lived in this quiet and peaceful village for 25 years and am fearful that the fine and gentile character of this place would be detrimentally and irreparably changed if this new planning initiative were to go ahead, here in Bearsted,