Not to build on BL2 but to keep it as a Buffer to Dickens Heath and protect the listed building without an eyesore of new buildings around it. This needs to remain in its original surroundings

The proposed site (BL2) was meant to provide a buffer between Shirley and Dickens Heath. This area was a designated Green Belt site. There is also a Listed building within site BL2. Adding 1000 houses around this site will detract from the listed building and spoil the heritage and value of this site.

Shirley has had more than its fair share of new housing and in fact the number of retirement homes and care homes has been excessive!! The areas where Shirley aquatics, TRW, Morrison's, Shirley police station, sans souci, porcelenass and Powergen sites all now have housing for retirement or indeed care homes???

The area is already struggling to capacity with schools and doctors surgeries unable to cope with the huge influx as this land is grabbed as an easy target instead of respecting the established Green belt and in considering the current capacities within our community.

There are plenty of brown field sites where areas and housing can be redeveloped. I would suggest holding off as with the current climate and many businesses closing and employees working from home, the current unfortunate pandemic may yield more brown sites that can be redeveloped into housing instead of spoiling our greenbelt areas even further.

The area where TRW is and the industrial area is already being developed and this should be the edge and limit of development with the field of BL2 remaining a green belt area and providing a buffer to Dickens Heath. I urge you to protect this site and especially so given that there is a listed building on this particular site.