Advertise the consultation to the people of Solihull - ensure that all residents in areas surrounding proposed development sites are made aware of proposals and given the opportunity to respond. Rethink the links being made between HS2 and housing need in Solihull. Protect our green spaces, remaining ancient woodland and green belt land by not allowing it to be built on. Do not overdevelop existing villages with defined borders making them into large concrete extensions of Solihull. Protect the quality of life of the people who live in Solihull now.

As a local resident, I only know about this consultation process because I happened to walk past a piece of paper attached to a lamp post on a walk down the canal. If I have just found out about these redevelopment plans that will have such a major impact on every resident in Shirley, and surrounding areas, I imagine other residents will also not be aware. This is not good enough. For consultation to be meaningful, all residents in affected areas should be made aware of the plans and given the chance to read and understand them and to give their feedback. 6 weeks is not enough time to do this and makes this consultations paper exercise-something that can be used to pay lip service to involvement if local communities without doing so in any meaningful way.

You identify the rural nature of Solihull as one of the factors making it a desirable place to live however this plan would concrete over an area in which houses are relatively (by Solihull standards) affordable (in comparison to for example Henley or Knowle) - is it less important for people in Shirley to access green spaces when so much of the green space in and around Shirley has already been built on?

There is also the issue of the North Solihull an area in massive need of re development.

Solihull Council should serve the needs of the people who live in Solihull now-not the needs of people who might want to move out of London because of HS2 and frankly not to serve the needs (and line the pockets) of housing development companies. To does not seem sensible to base projections of housing need around HS2 - a white elephant project for the elite - after employers and employees adjustments to remote working due to the coronavirus crisis, which are predicted to result in long term changes to working patterns and may well mean that need to travel down to London becomes obsolete.

Neighbouring areas will be negatively impacted by this massive expansion with increased traffic on roads not designed to accommodate heavy traffic flow, depreciation in value of houses where the value comes from their semi rural location, infrastructure is not in place to cater for a massive increase in population in Shirley and surrounding areas.

There are already new housing developments in Dickens Heath, Chiswick Green, Ilshaw Heath,Tidbury Green and Dog Kennel Lane. The proposed developments at Dickens Heath and between Cheswick Green and Shirley will effectively mean that Shirley, Cheswick Green, Dickens Heath and Tidbury Green will become one giant connotation with and sense of the current village nature of those places will be lost.

Your report acknowledges the ancient woodlands that much of Solihull is built on. The plan would decimate what is left in Shirley and Dickens Heath. The impact on local wildlife will be devastating and the environmental impact of nationwide encroachment on our protected green belt land will not be able to be mitigated by new planting.