I write to register my opposition to the proposed plan.

Site 1 would just increase the flow of water onto the Birmingham Road where the drains cannot cope at present during heavy rain and was flooded more than once last year.

Site2 is dangerously positioned and would benefit nobody but the landowner Mr Arkwright who would make a great deal of money from the sale.

Hatton Park has only one shop and is used regularly only by those living closeby. To suggest that Site 2 is centrally located to it is a nonsense as it would be on the other side of the very busy Birmingham Rd.

The local schools are full. The bus runs half-hourly but not in the evenings, on Sundays or Bank holidays.

Urban sprawl needs to be contained. People need green spaces and somewhere that they can get away from the hurly burly and recharge their batteries. Wildlife must be protected too or we will all live to regret it.