Object

Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020

Representation ID: 14583

Received: 20/11/2020

Respondent: Helena Tompkins

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Representation Summary:

Green belt should be preserved.
Negatively impact the local nature.
The roads are already experiencing heavy traffic, lots of queues and unwelcome car emissions.
Sports fields are included in the proposals which are essential for health and fitness.
The whole area is prone to flooding.
Some of the mitigation measures are not achievable

Full text:

Please accept this as an objection on the current development proposals (including site 4) which will have knock on impact on residents in neighbouring Majors Green.

My objections include

- this is green belt land. Green belt should be preserved, with brown field sites being redeveloped first.
- I have witnessed numerous deers which will be made homeless
- you will be negatively impact the local nature
- the combined impacts of the developments of Solihull, Bromsgrove and Birmingham are unsustainable given the infrastructure. The roads are already experiencing heavy traffic, lots of wueues and unwelcome car emmissions
- numerous sports fields are included in the proposals which are essential for health and fitness. Current provisions enjoy plenty of options for parking and overflow being located near to the train station. Replacement proposals will reduce facilities and will result in parking problems and further car traffic and emissions as they wont be appropriately located.
- Site 4 is surrounded by Local Wildlife Sites and Ancient Woodland – this will be so detrimental to the deer, badgers, bats and other wildlife that roam in these fields and adjoining woodland. The wildlife corridor will be detrimentally impacted.
- The narrow rural road network cannot take further development and is already overloaded.
- The pavements, lighting and road infrasture in neighbouring Majors Green is not able to cope with futher development. Increased traffic unduly impacts the 'neighbours' without any investment.
- Site 4 is mostly in flood Zone 1, these fields flood every winter and whenever there is a particularly heavy rainfall as the area is of bolder clay that restricts permeability. The whole area is prone to flooding and any knock on impacts downstream needs to be calculated and mitigated.
- Sustainability – Some of the mitigation measures included in the Plan are not achievable, therefore it isn’t sustainable. Other sites are more sustainable.
- The definable boundary of Dickens Heath is being compromised and merged at the expense of green belt land.