COOKLEY Action Group (CAG) is set to present Wyre Forest District Council with hundreds of objections to a traveller site at the former Lea Castle Hospital.

Chairman of CAG, Gill Hill, will be joined by members tomorrow when they take a petition of 350 signatures and 250 consultation forms to council offices at Duke House in Kidderminster.

Ms Hill said: “We will be inviting [council leader] John Campion to personally accept the documents. I will be asking him how many the council has received and how many are solely regarding the Lea Castle site. ”

She said she had received a letter of objection from Coventry and North Warwickshire NHS Trust, which owns part of the land.

She added that the Homes and Communities Agency, which also owns part of the site “complain to the council on their response form to say they are not happy to have this proposal on their site because it will blight their sale”.

She added: “If the landowners do not wish this to go ahead then the council have wasted a lot of time, money and effort – on all sides – with this foolhardy venture.”

The council has so far received 750 responses to its gypsy and traveller site consultation and the deadline is tomorrow.

Wyre Forest’s MP Mark Garnier said: “I will be making my own submission, articulating the many, many views on this subject that have been forwarded to me by email, from meetings with local residents and from my attendance at public meetings.

“My submission will be simple. I will not be disagreeing with the council’s policy of providing sites for travellers, I will simply be putting the case that we have enough already and that Worcestershire and Wyre Forest are already doing their fair share to accommodate the travelling community.”

To have your say, email LDF.Consultation@wyreforest dc.gov.uk or write to Planning Policy, Wyre Forest District Council, Duke House, Clensmore Street, Kidderminster