No
Draft Local Plan Review
Representation ID: 919
Received: 07/02/2017
Respondent: Kathy Jones
Objection to Site 3.
Support BARRAGE response to Draft Local Plan.
Why have 3 Green Belt sites been chose over 14 brownfield sites?
Balsall Common cannot accommodate 1150 additional homes.
Services overstretched as well as schools.
Traffic a problem near the 2 schools.
Houses on Frog Lane would add to peak hour congestion on Balsall Street East and Alder Lane.
Jaguar Land Rover site to south of village will also increase traffic.
Disruption of HS2 and associated construction traffic.
Solihull Draft Local Plan
I would like to add my support to the BARRAGE Response to Solihull Draft Local Plan 2017.
In particular I would like to query why 3 Green Belt sites have been chosen above the 14 brownfield sites in and around the village.
Whilst I appreciate that more housing is required I feel that Balsall Common, which is still a village as far as its amenities are concerned, cannot accommodate the 1150 houses suggested.
Our services are already over stretched as are the schools. Traffic is a problem particularly near the two schools. Houses on Frog Lane would certainly add to the congestion at peak time on Balsall Street East and Alder Lane.
The Jaguar Land Rover site to the south of the village will also increase traffic when it is occupied.
In addition we are to have the disruption of HS2 and all the construction traffic that will entail.
I ask that you reconsider the sites and number of proposed dwellings in order to maintain our Green Belt for the benefit of all.