Focus should be on regeneration of deprived areas like Chelmsley Wood. New builds should be affordable to those on a full time minimum wage. Shirley attracts people due to its proximity to greenbelt and that should be protected. Stop building massive and ugly retirement homes here - we have enough now and the doctors won't be able to cope with all the elderly.

Affordable housing is needed - not overpriced new builds that won't benefit first time buyers. Shirley is to take on 39% of the new builds - more than its fair share and decimating the greenbelt that makes the area attractive. This is on top of the countless retirement homes already being built here over the last couple of years. Shirley is already an ageing population and extra retirement homes means that'll go up - our GPs are already stretched thin and the older our population is the worse this will become.