I just returned from a 'road show' at the Jubilee Hall, Balsall Common to find that there is a plan to turn Balsall Common into what is, in effect, a small town.

To move to add another 2000 dwellings in our village, without an increase in secondary schools, medical centres and other amenities is to my mind a travesty of planning. To build any new dwellings without major increases in the road system and parking in the village centre and rail station would be intolerable.

Our home is off Windmill Lane, which is already very busy at peak periods acting as a rat run to avoid the traffic on the Kenilworth Road. At peak periods that Kenilworth Road traffic queues from Everson's fuel depot to get though the Village. It will also be obvious to any one with access to a map, that to get from the Kenilworth Road to Coventry and or the University, the traffic had to use Waste Lane or Hob Lane. Yet Hob Lane is almost single track in places, and HS2 has already built a depot on Waste Lane, adding to the problems of people commuting. And they will commute in their cars, since with only 2 trains an hour (with very little parking at the station), and a very infrequent bus service to Solihull and Coventry, they will have little choice.

In addition we have, on Windmill Lane, already had significant building noise for the last 4 years. Initially there was the pile driving. This was followed by the constant beep beep beep of plant reversing. It has started at 8 am and continues all day, often 6 days a week, making life very tiring. Then there is the question of wildlife. Quite frankly, given the level of noise and disruption over the last 4 few years I am surprised that there is any left in our immediate vicinity.

One only has to read the newspapers to by aware that there is perceived to be a 'housing crisis', but to load what seems to be most of the boroughs new development or our rural community seems very unfair. A cynic might believe that to upset one community rather than a number, if the development is spread around, may be a deliberate ploy. I however could not possibly comment.