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Angela Lawlor
GUARD Sutton Coldfield who were featured on the programme would welcome contact from any other groups around the Country who are fighting similar developments, we can be contacted via our web site link on this page.

Mike
The piece on backland development was a very one sided affair in favour of those people that want the status quo maintained forever. Life is changinging so is the way in which we live. I am one of those evil people who have signed up to selling both my house and garden to developers and will not make a fortune but it will give me a chance to pursue my plans for my near retirement.

The development on the back of ten houses and will require one of the houses being demolished. Interestingly though of the ten tenants over half are choosing to remain in their houses. What concerns me is the other side of this particular coin namely where do we build new houses, on the green belt? The suggestion that that we should develop old factory sites is nonsense, no one wiould want to live in many areas of the suggested development areas.

I have been physically threatened by the leader of the local action group. The not in my back yard group are very blinkered and if they have their way will lead to the destruction of the green belt. It is so easy for people bury their heads in the sand without considering any form of solution to the huge demand from people for housing.

Dawn Bayley
I am absolutely disgusted by all these proposed developments in Great Barr. The developers are not content with building on gardens they now want to knock down perfectly good houses. The developers use whatever scare tactics they can to get people to sell their houses. People are told that their neighbours have agreed to sell up, when they haven't and that if you don't agree we'll build three storey buildings rather than two. Something needs to be done urgently so that Great Barr doesn't turn into the inner city where children don't know what grass is as it's all been built upon.

Catherine
devolpments need to stop being on to of your own garden, we still need our own personal space outdoors, if they are trying to encourage children to stop watching tv and playing on the computer then we all need a garden.

Mark and Jane Usher
We were very interested in last night's programme and I am sure like many of your viewers we are fed up with being bombarded with unsolicited letters from prospective developers wishing to purchase our home and surrounding properties. We love our private location in Lichfield and have no intention of giving in to the JCB's and bulldozers. Great Programme - keep it coming!

Louise Dale
The developers are taking over in Great Barr. As a suburb we are covered by two Councils Sandwell and Birmingham neither of which discusses with the other what plans they are passing for the area. Houses with nothing wrong with them are being knocked down to make way for flats over looking peoples homes which if it had been an extension requested to the previous property would have never been allowed.

This must lead us to believe that not only are the developers making vast amounts of money but also so are the councellors who pass these plans with little or no thought to those that have to live with it. There are plenty of small derelict factory units where the land could be put to the same use. So why are the developers not using this if land is at the premium they would have us believe.

Sarah Knapp
You may like to broaden your scope and look at some of the developments that are being tried in the countryside!! It is becoming very difficult to buy even tiny properties because they have a lot of land and developers are snapping them up in the hope that they will get planning permission to build many homes on the single plot. This means that house prices for these properties spiral beyond the reach of locals who are just looking for a home.