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ID sylw: 106091

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Neil Padget

The infrastructure around the village struggles to support what we already have in terms of residents. We do not have a GP practice, there is no other medical resources. Other GP practices in local villages cannot cope now let alone with an significant increase in population.
There is only a small primary school that could not cope with the numbers of children that would need schooling.
There is no access to a secondary school without ‘laid on’ transport or parents using their motor vehicles. The journey to Tudor Grange or other similar schools in the Solihull area is difficult generally using the country lanes and there is no way there is sufficient parking or access at the schools to cope with the influx of children.
Children already have to get up so early in the are to get to school, that this is damaging for their health and wellbeing
The proposed developments appear to be in South Warwickshire, but the burden of the population for schooling, transport, health and refuse collection in particular would fall to Solihull MBC who have already opposed it. They are fully aware that they could not provide the services necessary to support this level of development.
There are no municipal leisure facilities for miles
The small road network could not cope. If up to 4000 new homes were built this is likely to see the private car usage go up by approximately 8000
they are all narrow B roads, other than the A3400 which would be extremely dangerous
Aylesbury Rd, B4101 has two significant almost 90° bends and an S bend, where there is already invisibility onto the road from properties.
The increase in pollution would be significant
people would have no choice but to use private vehicles because there is ineffective private transport and in particular buses.
The public transfer links do not support the existing population, and the use of buses would choke up the whole village, increase pollution and be extremely dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists
The A3400 Stratford Road already has 30 mile an hour average speed check traffic calming because it is so dangerous
the A3400 Stratford Rd already floods on a regular basis
to use public transport into the city of Birmingham, people would have to use Dorridge railway station which can only be accessed from Hockley Heath by road and there is not sufficient parking to cope. Dorridge in itself is a small village that is under 20 mile an hour traffic calming and it would be highly dangerous to have the extra private car traffic.
There is no train access from Hockley Heath
the electricity supply is often disrupted for residents now and could not cope with the additional requirements
the land is green belt and the whole point of that is that it only should be built upon in exceptional circumstances
any small disruption on the M40/M42 creates significant traffic increase as people use the A34 as a ‘cut through’, increasing pollution risk of accident, danger to pedestrian.
The wildlife would be affected, as a resident, I see foxes, badgers, Deer, Hedgehogs regularly in the fields where the planned development is, therefore significantly reducing their habitat
around the Aylesbury Road area there is very significant numbers of bird species, and whose restriction in numbers would be devastating. I regularly see buzzards, peregrines and other hawks, a full range of Tits, such as BlueTits, ColeTits, Long tailed Tits, Great tits along with, Sparrows, Thrush, Robin, blackbird, greater Spotted and green wood peckers, Nuthatch, green finch, Green finch, gold finch, bull finch, chaffinch, Siskin. The area is a bird motorway.
The development would be harmful for all this wildlife and impact on biodiversity.
The whole area is a fine area for countryside walking helping the well-being and in particular the mental health of the local residents
It would be a disaster to start to close the gap between Dorridge and Hockley Heath villages
The construction traffic could not be restricted from using B roads with the hazard and disruption significant.
There would be a reduction in countryside views which benefit us all.
The ‘Millenium Way’ would be affected negatively as the whole point of it was to travers through the countryside