13 Shirley - South of Shirley

I am writing to object to the decision to build over 600 new homes to the south of Shirley Estates. Having lived in Shirley for over 39 years and living on said Woodlands estate as a boy and now as an adult. I feel I have some expert knowledge on the surrounding areas.

It was a great place to grow up and was also a great place for my children to grow up, which was was why I moved back onto estate. For a council estate it must rate as one of the best as proving as over 50% must now be privately owed. Over the last 10 years due to Dickens Heath growth the traffic has steadily got worse. I cant understand why with all the green areas i see on the other side of Dickens Heath and Earlswood you wish to build on the fields right next door to Woodlands and Badgers Estates.

Dog Kennel Lane has unused fields either side of it but even that would cause more horrendous traffic problems. We all see the headlines about Solihull being one of the best places to live but if all this planning goes ahead Im sure that would no longer be the case. Knowle and Dorridge have plenty of areas to build on to.

So I'm writing to object to planing of said houses and would like to know how else I can object

(Your website was very unclear on what I should do to object and how can I attend varies meetings of objections when like most people are at work when the are scheduled to happen)

I am writing to object to the proposed housing at allocation 4 and 13

I am a resident of Haslucks Croft and have been subject to the vast increase in traffic due to the Asda site
At the enquiry for the ASDA application their counsel conceded that in rush hour there was ALREADY 7000 cars /hour moving along Haslucks Green Rd
Now eg on Saturdays it is grid lock back to the Cole brook public house due queuing into asda car park In effect it results in us having extreme difficulty turning out of haslucks croft in any direction

The intended development at the Powergen site and proposed petrol station will only render the problem more accute

It is apparent that the proposed development at 4 and 13 = 1300 houses will exacerbate the problem as it is quite clear that the new owners would use Asda
the nearest supermarket to shop and use in any event Haslucks Green rRd to access to Solihull and Birmingham , in essence the infra structure is not there to support this level of building density

Solihull motto is "town in the country " not town near a green belt the other side of the M42 ?>

I would wish to attend any subsequent enquiry to elaborate on this email

Allocation 13
We have already seen the Shirley community abused by large scale supermarket and retail park developments - it is only fair that these housing developments should be more evenly distributed across the borough. Building 41% of the total requirement in such a small concentration is clearly not in the best interests of local residents. This is before considering the social and environmental impacts.

I am most closely impacted by Allocation 13 however; taking allocations 4, 12, 11 and 13 together, it is disappointing that the future house building plans for the Borough intend to devour so much Green Belt land in close proximity to each other. Whilst understanding the national need to build houses it cannot be equitable that so much Green Belt land is lost at the same time, in the same place when other areas in the borough are totally unaffected. I regularly use the footpaths in these areas for recreational walking the loss this amenity will affect the whole community and impact on the quality of daily life.

I am concerned that building 2500+ houses in such close proximity to each other, will significantly increase the number of cars on small local roads which will be unable to cope, further impacting on the life of the community. The Stratford is already a very congested and this will exacerbate the issue. Public transport is already stretched to the limit. There is inadequate parking provision at local train stations. The train services themselves are inadequate to carry the potential increase in users. It is well known that there is a national diesel train shortage so it is highly unlikely that the services could be increased to cope with demand even if there was a willingness to do this. There is inadequate provision in respect of school places - a fact acknowledged in your own report.

I believe the present plans do not represent the best way forward. Unless the Council is prepared to improve school provision and transport links there will be major problems. If the developments continue this needs to be on staged basis, so that the impacts of developing each allocation can be measured and understoos and plans amended as the development proceeds.

Re: Objection to the draft local development plan for Shirley (in particular the allocation 13 and west of Dickens Heath).

We are both residents in Neville Road Shirley. I have lived here all my life (age 66) and my wife (age 57) for over 30 years.
I have used the footpaths from Whitlock's End farm all the way through to where Dickens Heath is now. This footpath is now only a right of way between houses.
What is left in this area is a small amount of footpaths in a semi rural setting which if developed upon will be lost forever and only become again a right of way between houses.
We do not understand why there is a need to build up against the remaining reduced footpaths. My wife and I use the footpaths daily for keeping fit (we are not dog owners)
and we meet plenty of other people, who like us, are keen to maintain their well being as they get older on the last remaining green footpaths.
We see many younger people and families who also are out taking exercise.

We are against the proposed development as there is nothing else in this part of the area to encourage simple activities such as walking for health purposes.
Shirley Park is small and hardly healthy near to the Stratford Road traffic. Increased housing in this area will bring with it increased air pollution levels, litter
and only bridge the gap between Shirley and Dickens Heath therefore reducing the area for enjoyment of the environment. Wildlife will be affected ie. we have seen deer and mink
to name a couple which will be lost forever.

The proposal does not explain how it will manage the increased numbers of people living there and their needs.
Currently my perception is that the Doctor surgeries and Schools are at capacity levels. Care in the community? Has this been considered for the increased number of residents.
Driving, traffic, traffic fumes and road surfaces in the area are poor.
We appreciate the need for houses and in particular the need for houses for 1st time buyers ( we are parents of Adult children struggling to get on the housing ladder).
Our experience of recent new builds in the area appears to be that a small percentage of the houses built are for young people which is actually not meeting the needs of young local people
or encouraging them to remain in the area.

Long term the health and wellbeing of local people, old and young, will be jeopardised.

I would like to register my objection to the proposed building of houses on allocation 4 and 13, Dickens Heath.

The extensive building that has already taken place in creating the semi rural village of Dickens Heath has already eroded the green belt to such an extent.

To continue to build in theses areas, the semi rural villages of Dickens Heath, Cheswick Green, Tidbury Green and Majors Green will be no more, there will just be a huge housing estate, making a less enjoyable area to reside.

There will be a massive impact on resources within the area. For example, school places, in particular Secondary schools are in high demand. There is not enough adequate schooling to support future generations. Local Doctors surgeries are already stretched to the limit as are other health services; dentists and the local hospital.

Traffic though Majors Green has increased since the development of Dickens Heath and the expansion of Whitlock End train station to the point that Haslucks Green road is very dangerous. There has been an obscene amount of accidents within a short period of time, many cars leaving the road. . Bromsgrove council has taken action to make Haslucks Green Road safer by the way of an anti slip surface and further road signs. However, where the Haslucks Green Road crosses into Solihull Borough, no action has been taken. The junction with Bills Lane is incredibly dangerous and can not take further traffic. Within the last few weeks two cars have left the road, gone across pavements and ended up in hedges. It is only a matter of time before a pedestrian is killed. Adding further traffic and pedestrians to an already very dangerous road is irresponsible.

There is a huge impact on an environmental issue, to an area that has already suffered massively. The proposed building site are a haven for wildlife providing homes for many species of wild flower and animals. We are all too aware of the impact of taking away their environment. Recent reports have highlighted the importance of the honey bee within our farming business and the massive loss of their habitat has already had a detrimental effect on their survival and our future farming production.

There area is also prone to flooding due to the massive development that has already taken place.

The proposed sites provide invaluable space the future generations who already have a lack of open space. The younger generations needed such areas as these to experience fresh air, the countryside and learn to appreciate nature and wildlife. These spaces are essentenial for health and well being of all within the area, providing an area to escape to from everyday stresses and areas exercise.

I appreciated additional housing is required, but ask you to resconsider the the use of allocation 4 and 13 for this purpose. The impact of the health and welling of residents, the already strechted to the limit health providers, lack of schooling available for future generations, the dangerous roads that will become condsiderabkt worse and the impact on the environment and wildlife will be massive.

There are brown field sites within Solihull borough that can be redeveloped. There are landscaped sites that are surely a better prospect for development . There is no need to develop common meadow/ fields and green belt land.

Please seriously reconsider the proposed development of the natural beauty allocation 4 and 13 and look to develop /improve already developed/ landscaped sites of which I'm sure there are many within Solihull borough , for instance, NEC

I would like to register my objection to the proposed housing development in the area known as Allocation 13.

My family live on Withybrook Road and have enjoyed many family walks in the fields less the 300m from our front door. The loss of these to the community would be devastating.

I have heard that one of the suggestions the objectors are proposing is a community park linking Shirley and Dickens Heath. This, as a minimum sounds like a good idea.

I hope the overwhelming feelings of the local communities will be considered.

Allocation 13
I would also like to register my objection to the proposed housing development in the area known as Allocation 13.

My family live on Withybrook Road and have enjoyed many family walks in the fields less the 300m from our front door. The loss of these to the community would be devastating.

I am writing to object to the proposed housing at allocation 4 and 13

I am a resident of Haslucks Croft and have been subject to the vast increase in traffic due to the Asda site
At the enquiry for the ASDA application their counsel conceded that in rush hour there was ALREADY 7000 cars /hour moving along Haslucks Green Rd
Now eg on Saturdays it is grid lock back to the Cole brook public house due queuing into asda car park In effect it results in us having extreme difficulty turning out of haslucks croft in any direction

The intended development at the Powergen site and proposed petrol station will only render the problem more accute

It is apparent that the proposed development at 4 and 13 = 1300 houses will exacerbate the problem as it is quite clear that the new owners would use Asda
the nearest supermarket to shop and use in any event Haslucks Green rRd to access to Solihull and Birmingham , in essence the infra structure is not there to support this level of building density

Solihull motto is "town in the country " not town near a green belt the other side of the M42 ?>

New Housing Developments in Shirley

We write to express my concern at the plans to build new homes on four sites in Shirley. As residents of Shirley we are concerned at the negative impact the huge scale of these developments will have on our community. Aside from the loss of green space we are concerned at the impact of the four new housing estates will have on the local roads and detrimental impact on local schools and doctors.

Whilst we appreciate that Solihull Council has targets for house building, Shirley cannot cope with the huge scale of the proposed developments. We have never before written to object to any new developments, but we feel very strongly about this issue. We hope you will give serious consideration to our concerns and those of many other local residents before making decision that will have such a detrimental impact on our lives.

To whom it may concern,

(Our home Hasluck's Green Road, Majors Green, B90 1DS)

I would like you to acknowledge our households objection to the proposition for housing development in the Majors Green area and those close by.

(Allocation 4 - 700 houses Whitlock's End/Majors Green)
(Allocation 13 - 600 houses South West Shirley Heath)
(Allocation 12 - 850 houses Dog Kennel Lane)
(Allocation 11 - 400 houses Dog Kennel Lane)

The report makes a lot of references to the benefits to the borough from HS2 interchange at the airport but Shirley will be one of the worst places to get to the new station, areas more appropriate and are more of a natural access point are to the east and north of the borough, these will not need to contend with the already congested A34 and M42.

We feel if building new houses on this proposed sites went ahead it would have a significant negative impact on not only our lives but other local residents as well as the damage to the local wildlife, trees, greenery etc. and our way of life.

Having grown up in from Wythall and moving to Majors Green 2.5years ago - we have seen a significant erosion to our countryside and rural feel of the area. With Dickens Heath having a huge impact, then other smaller developments followed, Shirley redevelopment being most recent.

The building of these houses as noted above would only cause a further increase on the issues we are current dealing with locally. Issues include;

- Volume Traffic along Haslucks Green Road, Majors Green end

- Speed of traffic on Haslucks Green Road Majors Green end. No active monitoring, average speed check areas (like some areas of Solihull have) - we are in a no-mans land here as we do not come under Solihull council?! we pay council tax to Bromsgrove (historical boundary change in the 1970's hence we retain the B90 postcode and not B47 etc.))

- Car mounting pavements and accidents. Hasluck's Green Road, Majors Green End. Notorious bad bends. (Resurfacing only finally conducted after a lady was struck on the pavement) I have witnessed over 30 cars mount the pavement. and numerous bumps. Road rage incidents and horns at locals driving on and off driveways are a regular occurrence. New signage too bright and dazzling can't read at night - so not slowing people down) waiting for a fatal accident. I think police when attending one of the accidents here said that you need three deaths before major work would be done?! more traffic would increase this danger. Resident property, fences, walls, cars have been damaged.

- Poor pavements. Have you tried to push a pram or walk a dog to Whitlocks end station from Haslucks green road?! crossing the road, narrow broken pavements, speeding cars dangerous. We have an older community here aswell and many i would think rely on transport links etc. but it wouldn't be safe for them to walk to the station around here. By building more houses this would increase traffic which would be disastrous and potentially fatal. As we live on the border will our pathways and safety be thought of. As our bend is dangerous now.

- Traffic noise has got worse following the Shirley development and increased free parking area at Whitlocks end station. The council don't want you to walk there but drive!! maybe thats why they didn't make the paths safe? beats the object of getting people to get fitter and less fat and save the environment by leaving your car at home. Again increasing houses and population in the local areas would impact this.

- Countryside and rural way of life being slowly eroded. Countryside walks are just a thing of the past as walking down the lanes isn't really safe anymore. The wildlife and greenery will disappear, build on this land now and then run out and need more in the future? - is there no houses or already built on areas that need regeneration rather than use green space.

- Doctors surgery and local schools. The local doctors surgery are so stretched from talking to other locals and receptionists. In some cases i have known people be sent to walk in centres? as the local surgery can't cope. More people will make this more an issue.

- Will this impact our house prices? as we were first time buyers and have saved so hard to buy our home, and to live in this area can be so expensive - are we now going to suffer? and not be able to sell our house if this houses are built? as i will want to move for the safety of my family, but will i be priced out of the area?
Will our concerns be noted as we don't actually live in a Solihull council postcode or not taken into account? even though all this is happening on our doorstep?

Please take our concerns into account.

Many thanks for reading our email - apologies for the rant, we have only found out about this from a flyer in the mail!

Green Belt Annihilation

This plan to build two & a half thousand new houses in an area already suffering from the Dickens Heath development in terms of loss of green belt land and extra road congestion in this area is preposterous. The 700 site adjoining Dickens Heath village looks as if it will mean losing several football pitches , including Highgate United and Leafield Athletic.

All this at a time when we are hearing daily about the harm to our health caused by pollution from the increasing numbers of vehicles on the roads of this country and the number of children who are suffering from obesity caused partly by not taking part in physical activities such as football, rugby, cricket etc.

I have lived in Bills Lane for over 30 years and the traffic here has got worse and worse, especially in the last 10 years. How this road and all the others in this vicinity are going to cope I dread to think.

Just a few miles from here in Earlswood there are several big building sites on green fields already being developed. The infrastructure is not there for the extra traffic to join the huge numbers already heading to Shirley , Solihull and Birmingham.

Surely there must be brown field and green sites elsewhere in the Borough that could be used for building a share of these 2,500 new dwellings.

Objection to South Shirley Amenity Land Development
I am a resident of Shirley living near to the proposed building site. I would like to raise huge concerns over the amount of traffic that this development will inevitably bring to an area that is already struggling during the rush hour and school pick up/drop off times. I and many of the other residents are also saddened by what will be a huge loss of green and pleasant land on our doorstep which was in many cases why people moved here in the first place.

I do appreciate the need for more housing but surely this is not the only option?

Objection re Allocation 13
Please take this email as an objection about the proposal to build residential dwelling on allocation 13 in South Shirley. Whilst I understand the need to fulfil housing quotas and targets, South Shirley has lost a significant % of its green areas to residential housing developments with more and more being planned in the future.

Shirley has gone from being one of the poorer relations in the Solihull borough to, through mainly the development of Parkgate, a thriving, buzzing community that we as residents feel proud to live in. It has, so far, managed to create an environment that feels both cosmopolitan in places but also semi-rural in others with the perfect mix of housing, shops, restaurants and greenery. It would be such a shame now to ruin what has become a much sought after location to live and work in.

> re: Allocation 13 - Shirley development plans
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> Please accept this email as my formal objection to the development plans for Shirley.
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> My objections are based upon the following points:
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> Insufficient infrastructure to support the huge increase in road users created by the development. This includes severe congestion to local residential roads as well as insufficient capacity of trunk routes including the A34 Stratford Road.
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> Removal of existing local amenities and no projection of how they will either be relocated or accommodated on an appropriate scale.
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> The impact on the local economic stability with a lack of local jobs, and the impact on existing property value.
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> Lack of facilities to support such a large increase in population including schooling, and health care.
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> Environmental impact of removing such a large green space, impact on local nature, air quality, water table.
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> I wish for these points to be taken into consideration, and to be informed of actions taken to address these points.

Apposed to allocation 13

Please can I express my concerns and rejection against allocation 13.

I think it's unfair and be a great eyesore to build on the fields that I live right opposite.
I believe it would cause huge disruption and pollution.

Kind regards

Allocation 13 Objection

I am writing to express my objection to the council's proposed building development on 'Allocation 13'. Like many others, I enjoy walking on this piece of land on a weekly basis and have done so for many years. Amongst it's many aspects of natural beauty, the area is particularly synonymous with it's unique birdsong soundscape. In the event of the proposed building work being given the green light, this birdsong would surely be lost forever which would be desperately sad for both present and future generations.

As such, I have composed the following short poem. I hope that whilst lighthearted in tone, you will take the time to read the words carefully and understand fully the ramifications that proceeding with this ill-conceived housing development will have.

The Birdsong Fields

Dearly beloved, let us bow our heads in respect to the Robins requiem
A mournful melody he's composed to mark his malady
For soon silence will fall from whence it stems
Upon the arrival of the construction cavalry

Sweet lovers, pause awhile for a chorus or two from the Crows concerto
A soulful song penned in response to her imposed affliction
In time it will be replaced by the builders crescendo
A sorry consequence of her premature eviction

Ardent ramblers, hear a snippet from the Swallows symphony
It's a truthful tune, his parting gift to this here parish
Another poor victim of the housing industry
His song like these fields, set to vanish

Devout dog walkers, lend an ear for the Blackbird's ballad
A rueful rhapsody that warns of an irreversible mistake
To tarnish this space that is verdant and placid
For an ill-conceived housing estate

Remarkable pensioners, care for an excerpt from the Warblers waltz?
A poetic piece, written for those, like you, who come to roam
It is these very fields that inspire her exalts
Fields that she too, calls home

Innocent children, gather round now for the Turtledoves theme,
It's a danceable ditty devised especially with you in mind
These fields are your future, a space to climb and dream
A place that once gone, can't be re-designed

Valued congregation, give thanks for these songs of harmony & peace
Marvel at the beauty with which they are performed
For a building site will surely cause them to cease
Leaving this great concert hall irreparably transformed

By
H. S. March

Thank you for taking the time to read this email.

I wish to register my objection to proposed houses on allocation 04 &13
The roads are already congested & dangerous around Majors Green & natural habitat will be lost forever.

see attached letter and supporting annotated map

Allocation 13 and Allocation 4

To whom it may concern,
I am writing to register my objection to the loss of allocation 13 to residential use.
I live on Falstaff Road in Shirley and within a few minutes of leaving my house, my family and I can be in green countryside. It is a very well used natural environment, that provides a much welcomed break from the urban environment.
I moved from one part of Solihull to Shirley 3 years ago and the ability to be in the countryside within a few minutes was key to our decision to move to Shirley. I regularly use this area for running, walking with family and in particular taking my 4 year old daughter out to learn about nature and wildlife. I can honestly say that the inability to access this green space would have changed our decision to move to this part of Shirley.
The Shirley area is already subject to a huge amount of congestion which affects the whole of the Stratford Road from the M42 junction and all arterial routes. The addition of thousands on new homes in such a small area will compound congestion.
My concern as a parent is the impact on local schools. My daughter attends the infant school within this area and she is already in a class of 30 children. The influx of more families could lead to a decrease in the quality of education being provided due to the stretch in resources.

I am also writing to register my objection to the loss of allocation 4 to residential use. I know this area well due to family being located in neighbouring Major's Green. I would be extremely concerned about the impact on local roads which are already very congested.
In addition, there is a large number of sports clubs and facilities currently in allocation 4. Sport clubs are community hubs which play an important role in both adult and children's physical and mental well-being. To lose such a large cluster of sports clubs would impact on the physical and mental well being of the residents in the local community. To transition people to other sports clubs is not a successful option due to the high rate of drop in participation when change occurs.
Yours Sincerely

Allocation 13 - objection to development plans

I'm writing in relation to the plans to seek planning consent for a number of green belt sites in the Shirley area including allocation 4, 11, 12 and the one upon which I'm am focusing allocation 13.

The plans to seek permission for a further 2550 houses of which 600 will feature in allocation 13 will have a detrimental impact on the area both in and surrounding allocation 13.

Firstly it will have a negative effect on the green area/countryside that we currently use to allow our children to enjoy the open space and countryside to view wild animals and other wildlife especially as the one of the other green areas of Shirley (Shirley Park) has been eroded via the recently built Parkgate complex and will mean that it will become a more urban area of concrete and brick and not an area which our children can enjoy or feel safe to run around and enjoy themselves without fear of vehicles being nearby.

Also to add at least the 600 houses on allocation 13 will have a significant impact on the infrastructure of the area. For example it can take over 20 minutes each morning to drive the circa 100-150 yards up Tanworth Lane onto the B4102 towards either Solihull/Monkspath and the M42 and the roads between the hours or 7.30am and 9.00am and the from circa 5.00pm to 6.00pm struggle to cope with the current traffic levels let one anything which could increase between a further 600-2550 additional houses.

Further to this as a father with two young children due to changes to school catchments areas and the overpriced housing in certain areas of Solihull there are significant challenges on school places and the Solihull Council School Report of 2016 already highlights the limitations of the current school places let alone the expected demand in the next 5 years which combined with the development plans will mean we will not have enough places for our children to grow, develop and learn and as such will add pressure to the local community and school needs via over capacity classrooms/stretched teachers and under educated children (leading to worse local social demographics and adding further pressure to the local government budgets across multiple touch points including anti-social behaviour due to less focus on supporting education and development.

Further to this there are also limited GP services in the area and also with the reduction of the Solihull Hospital A&E to minor injuries will mean our healthcare capabilities will be stretched beyond breaking point and capacity. In conjunction with the closure of the Shirley police station means we wouldn't be able to support then increased needs that come with a vastly expanded community.

I have also been informed that there are plans to build a nursing home between Active Angels nursery and tanworth lane surgery which is going to add significant chaos to the current road infrastructure immediately with more cars and a potential dangerous building area close to a nursery where children are regularly outside and will be close to the building that will take place. A nursery that my daughter goes to and I have to be honest that even now it can take 10 minutes to get out do the driveway in the morning post drop off due to inconsiderate drivers and the sheer traffic levels. God help us what this would be like with the additional 600 houses of allocation 13 let alone the short term challenged with the new nursing home.

We should preserving the green area of allocation 13 as a dedicated green area for wildlife and community area for the local residents to enjoy and preserve a space for our future generations of children to grow up safely away from the busy roads and speeding motorists that believe it's right to drive at 40 mph+ on the local roads around allocation 13.

Allocation 13
I don't have the time to give you any additional reasons or compile a lengthy email than that you will have already received from hundreds of Shirley residents but I simply cannot believe that the plans for the new houses does not as far as I can see take into account the already at capacity public services in the Shirley area; Doctors waiting times!!
School places!!
Police and fire response!!
Roads!!
Etc etc...
This is without mentioning the massive detrimental affect this will have on local residents in both the short and long term due to loss of greenbelt, habitat for local wildlife and the sports fields these houses will permanently destroy.
This is simply a case of money talks and a lack of forethought by planning and council staff.
Your paid to do a job which should In my opinion not detrimentally affect local residents but enrich our area and facilities. This plan is about cramming the maximum amount of houses (most of which will be out of reach financially to any first time buyer or young family) into a rural area which cannot support them.

I'm not naive enough to think that even with 100,000 objections this plan won't go ahead but if you build the proposed plan without increasing capacity at local schools, hospitals, police and fire services etc etc then it shows how out of touch you are with the demand for such services already within the borough.

Objection to allocation 13

I lived in Baxters road for 22 years, moved away and returned to sandfield close after 9 years so my son could have a better child hood and experience the way of life I had growing up.
As a resident of sandfield close I object to the proposal of building 600 homes on the green belt land to the rear of my property.
The green land is a fantastic place for playing and picnics for the children. With education for children without them realising with regards to the wildlife. Cookoos, woodpeckers, owls, bats, toads, voles, field mouse and the list goes on.
The park that was available was removed, it would be devastating for the comunity to loose the green land. As it stands the children can play without worrying about roads and cars. Congestion has increased to a high volume now and would be gridlocked if houses where to be built on allocation 13. Pollution would increase and nature destroyed. It would make detrimental impact on schools and doctors, which are already pushed to there limits. I strongly object to this, as in years to come the next generations will not have the wonderful experiences that we had to the green lands.

Allocation 13 objection

I as a resident of sandfield close,shirley,solihull I strongly object to the proposal of building the additional 600 home on the green belt land to the rear of my property. (allocation 13) This beautiful peace of land is not only homes to the many animals that live in it,but it's a piece of land that's loved by many people of all ages and from all walks of life,eg..children,dog walkers,horse riders..etc.
To build on this land in my opinion would be disastrous not only for the current residents and the people who currently use this land but on the general economy of the area as the schools,doctors would be overstretched much more than what they are already,there would be serious consequences for the roads in and around the area as it would cause major congestion which ultimately would cause gridlock.
I moved here in May 2014 to try and give my children a better life..with the added bonus of the fields to the rear of my property which would ultimately give them the outside life that they could benefit and grow from,where I knew they would be safe to have a good childhood and not cause nuisance to any other persons in the process.
I do hope that there will be a reconsideration of these plans before it's too late.

Letter responding to draft local plan review.

see letter - Objection to Solihull Draft Local Plan Review- Particularly Area 13.

Please see attached for my letter backing the objection of Allocation 13 and 11 and 12.

Please investigate all other options before destroying Shirley further and getting rid of any beauty it still possesses..

I would like to object to the proposed building on Allocation 13.

I strongly object to building on green belt land and believe this should only be used to build on as a last resort.
I urge the council to find alternative land.
I appreciate that more houses are needed but why doesn't the council use land in Solihull or Birmingham, where space has become available through factories etc being demolished. Also, there are infill sites elsewhere, i.e. Dorridge.
It seems that the council propose to build an awful lot of homes into a very small area in Shirley.

My husband and I live on Woodloes Road, right opposite the proposed site.
The land is used by dog walkers and people enjoying the tranquil, open space that we so often need in today's stressful world.
Apart from the loss of such a beautiful and tranquil area,I also have many concerns around the use of this land for houses.
My concerns are with building 600 houses comes all the changes that are needed to service this estate.
There would need to be access into the estate and if Woodloes RD was chosen as an access road it would have a massive impact on the traffic and cause long delays, especially at peak times, when trying to get in or out of our homes.
Our local services, such as doctors surgeries and schools will not stretch to accommodate the extra numbers of residents.
The land already has a lake on it and where would the excess water drain to, would it become a flood risk to us in the future?
When looking at the plan to build, if it goes ahead, will the council do all they can to make it asthetically pleasing as an estate?
I would like to think that the proposal is to leave enough space between Woodloes Rd and the new houses, so that we don't feel on top of each other and that we will not be staring at a brick wall of flats or similar tall buildings.
I hope the plan involves some greenery in the form of hedges bordering the proposed estate, similar to that on Monkspath estate.

I sincerely hope our objections and fears are taken seriously as Solihull Council rate payers and urge you to think again before building on Allocation 13.

Re: Allcation 13
Dear sir/ madam,
I am writing to object the above going forward.
Solihull is a lovely place to live and work for some of us but, this is ludicrous to build more houses. Unless that is you are going to supply more jobs for the people wanting to buy.
We live in Dickens Heath and at one time it was a village but, there are so many houses/apartments now it's more like a town. We only have one school, a small Tesco store, no post office. I just find it ludicrous that there are even more houses going up.
Please, please think about what you are doing and leave us at least some green belt for the children that are growing up here.

Kinda Regards

My wife and I have lived at Burman road for about 35 years but my son and his partner have had to move to Coleshill to find affordable property even though they would ideally like to live near Shirley Starter homes and lower cost housing are desperately needed to balance the aging / aged population that the borough is fast becoming.
I fully support this allocation with the proviso that sports facilities should be retained as the amateur clubs are much appreciated locally.

i wish to object to the proposed buildings of 41% share of houses in Shirley Solihull. As I live on Marshall Lake Road and the traffic is already dire,the thought of so much more traffic and congestion around this area is ridiculous. Green belt land and wildlife are more important to people than houses which they cannot afford I feel. Traffic pollution is not good for anyone's health or safety, whereas open spaces and fields,peace and quiet,bridal paths,dog walking areas,canals and rippling streams are most beneficial to health and well being.
'IF IT AINT BROKE....DONT FIX IT'