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ID sylw: 106032

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Karen Parkes

All the marked land is on Green Belt & this should only be built on in absolute exceptional circumstances
- The village has already got severe surface water drainage problems & the Stratford Road floods regularly. Such HUGE further development will worsen the situation.
- The development is completely at odds with Solihull MBC’s local plan which clearly states only SMALL scale developments are appropriate for Hockley Heath.
- Going from 700 homes to 5000 is CRAZY and frankly greed from developers who are only interested in profit. It will completely ruin Hockley Heath. Schools and Doctor Surgeries are already over subscribed and can’t cope! Will the builders build a new school and Doctors Surgery before they can sell one house? Of course not!!
- The A34 is already congested and further traffic will just produce jam after jam bumper to bumper traffic. When the M40/M42 is busy cars already cut through Hockley Heath. Any further traffic will be very dangerous. Will the builders build new roads and take responsibility for the accidents? No of course not!
- The development will harm wildlife and impact biodiversity. The loss of green space will impact significantly on the wellbeing of existing residents
- It will fundamentally change the character of Hockley Heath forever, undermining its distinctiveness and rural identity. It will become just a dangerous concrete jungle!!
- The village has nowhere near the infrastructure in terms of education, health and transport to sustain a development of this size
- Although this development falls within South Warwickshire, the burden of the new population in terms of schooling, transport, health, refuse collection would fall to Solihull, who already opposed it. This clearly is unfair and would lead to ongoing disputes between the councils over funding in the future.