I wish to object to Policy BL2, which will encourage the building of 1000+ homes on beautiful green belt farmland to the rear of my house. I object for the following reasons.

This land extends from Cheswick Green northwards and eastwards to Dog Kennel Lane and Stratford Road.

These form clear and abrupt boundaries between open farmland and the built-up mass of the West Midlands. These clear, well defined boundaries must remain intact. The proposed developer's site boundary comes to within 100m of Cheswick Green. Development BL2 would leave an impossibly narrow gap to Cheswick Green village.

We will lose the valuable Arden Pasture Landscape fields and viable farmland. The remaining strip around Cheswick Green would be either a country park, or very marginal farmland.

I have lived in Cheswick Green all my life - I went to school here. This is my third Cheswick Green house, its main attraction to us being the beautiful open countryside at the end of the garden.

At the moment we enjoy weekly walks, with our daughter, round the public foot paths through the open fields, picking blackberries, learning about farming, the seasons and doing nature trails. These open rural paths would be lost forever, becoming at best suburban pathways, or roadside pavements – no substitute for the real thing. The see below a photo of our daughter at the bottom of our garden waiting for the sheep to come past with the farmer.

Flooding. The fields behind our house slope down towards us. Where will the run off water go if the fields become concrete?

New light pollution at night at the back of the house. Currently the back of the house is completely dark at night.

Noise and disturbance resulting from people, not sheep and cows, living in this space.

The natural habitat will be destroyed. We regularly see 2 fox cubs that play in the field behind and come into our garden. We watched lambs being born at the end of our garden this spring.
I’m at a complete loss to understand why the council would even consider the awful destruction beautiful green open fields in favour of building on and re-using brown field sites?

Inevitably there would be a significant increase of traffic on both small local country lanes and Stratford Road. This is bad enough already, with long delays on my way to and from work.

Why suggest a new school less than half a mile from the existing Cheswick Green school, just as the Council are consulting on doubling the size of the school to cater for new local development?

Over developing an already developed area and joining housing areas together with more housing to create a city of housing estates in place of fields.

There must be somewhere more appropriate for new houses. Please remove this ill considered proposal from your local plan.