Cheswick Green - site 12- Dog Kennel Lane
I have lived on Cheswick Green for over 45 years and am very concerned at the impacted the building around us is having and will have in the future. Cheswick Green is a very rural village with lots of trees and green space, it seems to me we are being squashed, we were led to believe many moons ago that there would always be a green buffer between any future development around Cheswick Green.
The letter we received from Cheswick Green Parish Council worried me immensely.
Our lovely rural school. Doubling the intake size of our school without increasing the hall, library, office space canteen facilities and not providing adequate parking for staff, is offering a substandard school experience. the playing field has always been a well-used rescores to the school and the loss of this would be detrimental to the school experience. I am dreading the parking implications at opening and closing times, its chaotic now. Both Blythe Vallie and the new housing on Dog Kennel Lane should have their own infant and junior school facilities. The letter from Cheswick Green Parish Council, indicated that you have suggested children from Blythe Vally could walk two and a half miles to school or catch a school bus, parents of five- to nine-year-old children would not be happy with these two suggestions, both are extremely dangerous .
No provision for doctor's surgery, at the moment it can take days of phoning to get to see someone, Blythe Vally and the new development should have their own provision. I'm worried we will have to travel further to hospital appointments as our hospitals have more patients.
The roads around our area are already a lot busier, with more accidents than we have ever had, the extra housing on Dog Kennel Lane and Blyth Vally are already having an adverse effect on our rural roads and I've lost count as to how many times our bus service has been threated.
The flooding now on Cheswick Green is a lot worse since the new houses on Cheswick Green has been built, and all the new housing at Dog Kennel Lane is bound to affect the rivers making this even worse. When the new housing on Cheswick Green was passed, we were told that measures had been factored in but they don't seem to have worked.
With the housing already being built at Blythe Vallie and the new proposals at Dog Kennel Lane, you will be offering house holders inadequate schooling, problems getting doctor and hospital appointments, roads unable to cope with traffic jams and even more flooding on the older Cheswick Green Village, this is not really good enough from Solihull Counsel and not good enough for the people already living here working here and those who may buy a house hear in the futter. It would also be nice that if we have to have some new housing it was greener with space for trees and front gardens, the new development on Cheswick Green has no green spaces it looks worse than a housing estate,