PLANS to build more than 50 homes at Babbs Mill have been approved by Solihull Council, despite fierce opposition from local residents.
The housing development, which will see the loss of part of a local nature reserve, was given the go-ahead this evening.
Ahead of the vote, members had heard passionate pleas from ward councillors and the campaign group Action for Babbs Mills not to build on the well-known wildlife habitat.
In the end the planning committee voted in favour of the plans by a majority of six to three.
Councillor Jeff Potts (Con, Knowle), who previously represented Kingshurst, said that helping to meet the housing need was worth "the sacrifice."
But Coun John Windmill (Lib Dem, Olton) suggested the scheme was tantamount to "the plunder" of green space and claimed that the odd swing or roundabout didn't make up for the loss of land.
A full story and further reaction to tonight's decision will feature in this month's edition of the Other Side of Solihull e-newspaper.
Leave our green space & nature reserve's alone. Go and build on the other side of the borough, we have more then enough new build's this side!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteCouncillors from Knowle & Olton giving the thumbs up to take our green space away - shame on you! Let's have 50 houses on Tudor grange park or Brueton park
ReplyDeleteJust to clarify, John Windmill was one of the councillors who voted against the proposal.
DeleteNo!!!!! Stop building on every bit of land or grass that is around the area!! That park and Lake is the main pride and joy with wildlife galore and you are happily going to rid it in the name of greed!! Destroying everything with your poxy houses!!
ReplyDeleteNew Asda at Chelmsley with a massive flat car park taking up far too much space when a multi-storey would not. Old library site still empty. Piss poor Radford layout of the estate remains largely unchanged and then some bright spark say's "I know, let's build over all the green spaces on the estate because the fat plebs don't exercise or appreciate the wildlife". Couldn't make it up. Yes, people need housing but there are other sites within Solihull's boundaries such as brownfield sites.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, what is being done to provide better services which can cope with the influx of people?
this is why all us older generation class ourselves as living in birmingham solihull only ever wanted us for the rent money as part of a deal to get the land to build birmingham airport you would never get this happening in SOUTH SOLIHULL
ReplyDeleteWhat is wrong with people there are loads of area where the houseing is in need of repair to the point they can't be lived in knock them down rebuild or repair them first stop building on green land soon this country will have no green land left and our children children will never know what it's like to see green fields and trees, I work in a school and we take the children to a farm and it never stops amazing me the amount of kids that are amazed at the sight of fields trees and open land because they never see it living in Birmingham, surely this is wrong
ReplyDeleteDisgusting how they can even think to build there. Only to bring in more foreigners to wreak the area. Begging and robbing us. Send them to olton and knowle. It's great down babes mill in summer and now it's going to be a construction site
ReplyDeleteThis is an absolute travisty. I live on Cooks Lane and had no idea this was happening. We live in essentially one of the most deprived areas of solihull, and by reducing the green space they are compounding the issue of mental ill heath. The council should be concentrating on promoting wellbeing by making use of the green space not building on it.
ReplyDeleteAnd the local residents should be consulted in this!
This is disgraceful , Babs Mill is such a lovely area of much needed green space
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