As a long standing resident of Solihull who has played rugby and coached mini rugby at the old Solihull Rugby Club ground I am angered to discover that the sports ground has been included Local Development Plan for potential housing development. This is despite the 2013 all party policy on the rugby ground on maintaining the SPORTS GROUND ONLY covenant and not to sell the freehold.
I demand that the council maintain the above covenant and take active steps to restore the ground as an active sporting facility for the benefit of the local community
On practical grounds I believe the building of between 60 to 100 houses on the old rugby club ports ground would considerably increase traffic flow into Sharmans Cross Road and increase the already dangerous situation to children due to parking outside Sharmans Cross School. It would also add to the existing traffic congestion at the junctions of Sharmans Cross Road, Streetsbrook Road, Stonor Park Road and Dorchester Road at peak times.
The density required to contain 60 to 100 houses on the sports ground site would be at least 4 - 5 times that of the surrounding area and destroy the character and diminish the historical distinctiveness of he area, and also bring into question the future viability of the historic tennis club facility.
I believe that there is inadequate medical and school capacity to support the considerable increase in local population that the development of the sports ground would bring.
I would also question whether services such as the old drainage system would cope with development of the sports ground, Sharmans Cross road has already been the subject to extensive flooding in recent years