I am writing to register my objection to the development of Shirley South. Particularly Allocation number 13 which is designated green belt land.

Myself and my wife use allocation 13 ourselves come spring and summer with family members who live in the fercinty of the affected area.
The Shirley area is already subject to a huge amount of congestion which affects the whole of the Stratford Road from the M42 junction and all arterial routes, including Dog Kennel Lane, Tanworth Lane, Shakespeare Drive, Blackford Lane (which has structural issues), Haslucks Green Road and Bills Lane. In addition, the main route out of Dickens Heath to the Miller carter baxters road, baxters green, and sandfield close. is like a racetrack. As are some of the local rat runs such as Stretton Road, which constranly has drivers coming along the road at ridiculous speeds, in an area with two schools and a large elderly community. using short cuts round the local community of baxters road and baxters green as short cuts.
The green belt land is used for recreational use. dog walkers and families. spring and summertime these fields are used by families with children for playing and investigating wildlife. There is wildlife over the fields ie cuckoo's, woodpeckers, owls, newts and the list could just go on.
The addition of thousands on new homes will compound congestion and traffic flow to a catastrophic level and also increase rat run traffic.
In addition to the problem of infrastructure, the area is not set up to facilitate a large number of potential new families. It is already veirtually impossible to get your child into the secondary school of your choice. What will happen to the catchment area of schools in the borough. In my particular area, residents have been bounced back from Alderbrook and Tudor Grange over the years by the Monkspath and Hillfield developments and latterly Dickens Heath.
Shirley South is to receive approximately 41% of the new housing in the borough. This is disproportionate and unfair. The effect will be to completely change the character of the area from a semi-rural location to an urban sprawl.
Under the government white paper "Fixing our broken housing market" it states that "
Green Belt boundaries should be amended only in exceptional circumstances when local authorities can demonstrate that they have fully examined all other reasonable options for meeting their identified housing requirements".
I believe that there are numerous options yet to be explored and have yet to see the exhausted list of alternatives that have been investigated.