We would like to voice our objection to the above Local Plan for the following reasons:
We are residents in Rushleigh Road, Majors Green, Solihull, and walk every day from home and back to Shirley Station where we use public transport.
The part of Haslucks Green Road which we use being from Whitlocks End Station to Shirley Station has a 30 mph speed limit. At the present time, virtually 95% of vehicles far exceed this limit. The width of the road was not built to accommodate heavy duty vehicles (30 tonnes plus), and the volume of high volume of traffic.
As pedestrians walking down the footpath, as the road and the footpath are not wide enough, these large vehicles are very close to the footpath and you feel very unsafe. Sometimes they mount the footpath as they are unable to pass each other.
Currently to cross Bills Lane in either direction you take your life in your hands as firstly vehicles coming down Bills Lane are travelling far too fast, and if they are turning left they immediately look to the right as there is no 'Stop' sign at this junction. As a pedestrian you cannot see up Bills Lane for any on-coming traffic to make it safe to cross. Likewise if you are crossing Bills Lane in the other direction from Shirley Station you can look back to see if it is clear, and proceed to cross, but as vehicles are coming so fast down the hill again it has become dangerous to cross the road.
As people do not adhere to the speed limit, there have been numerous occasions when vehicles which are travelling far too fast have left the road and gone through the hedge/fence. In the past few weeks, there have been two occasions where vehicles have left the road: one has gone through the hedge at the bottom of the hill just past Bills Lane, and just recently a vehicle has mounted the pavement, gone through the chain link fence and taken with it four concrete fence posts (about half way down the hill from Shirley Station).
Should we have been walking along the footpath on these occasions, we doubt we would be sending this e-mail today.
This is the current situation, which year on year is getting worse, and with the future housing development proposals this will only be exacerbated.
Therefore before any decision is made on these proposals, all objections should be seriously considered.