Green Belt

I wish to express my concerns about recent plans to develop green belt fields around the Solihull borough for housing.

With plans to build an extra 2250 houses on four sites with potential an extra 4500+ people will have a detrimental impact on Transport promlems, Doctors, Schools and Hospitals. With regard to hospitals, instead of the goverment spending 65 billion pounds on HS2 and Britains defence sytem, surely they can spend some on the NHS to build more hospitals.

I digress, I have lived in Shirley all my life and been living in Hurdis Road for the past 42 years the volume of traffic has increased to a frightening level. As it runs parallel with the A34 Stratford Road, Hurdis Road and local roads are used as a cut through to the Stratford Road. It is more like living on the main road than a side road and the speed bumps do not have any effect for slowing the traffic down. A lot of traffic do well in excess of 30 mph. On all roads around estates the speed limit should be reduced to 20mph.

Solihull Doctors and Hospital are stretched now, don't know about schools. The impact of an additional 4500+ people to the area will be very detrimental.