I am not happy with the decision taken at the Planning Meeting in February to give outline approval for 330 houses in part of Housing Allocation 11. You told us a couple of years ago that you thought the site should take 400 houses. You have now given approval for about 250 starter homes. I think therefore that the remainder of the site should only have approximately 150 houses. And I don't think these should be starter homes either. We need mixed housing, for all generations.

I am exceedingly unhappy at your plans to cut down so very many trees, just to put in lots of houses. This will presumably make lots of money for someone along the line. But in the process it will destroy the habitat of lots of wildlife. These are lovely trees, helping to filter out toxins and improving the air quality. Surely there are designers who could draw up more imaginative plans, positioning houses in such a way that far more trees can be retained.

The traffic in this part of Shirley has already reached full capacity - sometimes these days there are stationary lines of cars both up and down the full length of the road at peak times. If, as you are proposing, we have an additional 1000 houses in Allocation 12, plus nearly 600 houses in Site 11 (which together could be mean anything up to an extra 3000 cars) Blackford Road will not be able to cope. And did you know, possibly not, that Blackford Road has to be closed on occasions, sometimes for weeks on end, because of road collapse?