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Myself and family who have lived in the area for over 40 years strongly object to the planning of a Traveller site at River Hill.
We are already a diverse area, which is fully embraced and we are proud of the strong community. There has always been travellers in our road, which we are good neighbours with, and we have nothing against their community, we also live in close proximity to the site at West Meadows . However being a part of a economically poor part of Ipswich, with a social housing and a poor demographic. Why are you proposing a site, that I fear will put the successful adjacent businesses of Clarice House and Lumberjacks out of business? Would it be more important to invest in this area and fairly share the traveller sites, rather than putting them all in the same area, where the community is no longer diverse, but dominated by certain groups. Why is nothing like this proposed in the economic richer area of north and east Ipswich? You are going to make a poor area, poorer, rather than raising the expectations of the youth. No chance of social mobility etc...