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Representation ID: 12776

Received: 08/10/2021

Respondent: Miss Angela Davies

I am emailing about the proposed planning of building up to nearly 1000 new homes on the land between Queslett road East-Doe bank lane-Aldridge road and Bridle lane.

As a resident of streetly I strongly object to these plans as it would absolutely devastate the area! This piece of land is literally the lungs of the area, it is home to an abundance of wild life and is also green belt land as you know, we simply can not allow this to happen!
I really fear for the future of the children of our area if this absurd plan is allowed to go ahead. I have lived in streetly nearly all my life, I grew up looking out on to those beautiful fields everyday, there are some really beautiful old trees on the land, it would be criminal to destroy this area and turn it into a concrete jungle.
I have noticed the increase in traffic in the area over the last 20 years, it’s unbelievable how much traffic is flowing through the area at all times of day and night, but rush hour is really getting bad, especially along the Aldridge road where we have lots of traffic coming from the already FULL schools in the vicinity. I just could not imagine the amount of traffic in the area with another 1000 houses plonked in the middle of it, some households have 2 or 3 cars these days , it would be absolutely horrendous with that amount of extra vehicles in the area, it just would not work!!
And the pollution would obviously increase drastically! Leading to more childhood asthma and other pollution causing illnesses, this is not fair for our children and we as parents and residents of the area are not prepared to let this happen!
There are many brown field sites that are much more suitable for development, we already have houses/flats being built on queslett road East/doe bank lane, I think most people are ok with this as it was an unused piece of land which used to be a petrol station.
There are so many factors that go against this plan such as infrastructure- schools are full to the brim! Doctors are overwhelmed and can just about deal with the amount of residents we already have - traffic pollution- noise pollution- light pollution- decimation of wild life and land destruction of natural beauty and green belt land. I could go on and on. This plan would absolutely devastate this community, us residents are willing and determined to oppose this all the way, we are extremely passionate about this and we have a large amount of people which is growing by the day , willing to fight this all the way, as once this land is built on it is gone forever.