No
Draft Local Plan Review
Representation ID: 2597
Received: 13/02/2017
Respondent: Mr & Mrs Woollard
Object to proposals for housing Site 13 as results in loss of green belt land forever, 41% of housing allocation in one area is unfair, negative impact on community through loss of green space and resultant well-being, increased transport problems on already overcrowded roads, overburdening of schools and medical services, and will be poorly located in relation to HS2 interchange compared with areas in east and north of Borough avoiding congested A34 and M42. Proposals should be cancelled or severely scaled back and Site 13 in particular scrapped.
FAO: Policy and Spatial Planning. Solihull SMC.
The reasons why we oppose the plans to build new houses on local green belt land are as follows:
1. We lose this green belt land forever. It changes the semi rural aspect of the area. We need all our green spaces!
2. They're unfair - 41% f houses in Solihull's plan are in 4 sites that neighbour our community.
3. They will have a negative impact on our community: aside from the loss of green space around and near our homes (and the benefit to community well-being that that brings), the propsed housing would create transport problems along an already busy and overcroded Haslucks Green Road, Bills lane, Tamworth Lane, Blackford Road and many of the roads that run between them. It could also have a detrimental affect on schools and doctors.
4. It won't help HS2: the draft Local Plan Review makes a lot of reference to the benefits to the borough from the HS2 interchange at the airport. However, Shirley will be one of the worst places in the borough to get to the new station. Areas to the east and North of the borough are more easy and natural access points that won't need to contend with the congested A43 and M42.
We would like our views as local people taken into consideration to cancel or at the very least severely scale back this all of this local plan. Allocation 13 should be in particular scrapped.