Handsworth residents say why the oppose green belt housing plans

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00:00People are feeling really strongly about this. They're devastated

00:03on both areas of housing and we will go to

00:07whatever lengths we can. As a community we will stick together

00:11and we'll fight this every step of the way. I'm Michelle Deweyer

00:15and I live on the Beaver Drive, the Beaver Estate at Hansworth

00:20and that leads to Bramley Estate. They're proposing to build obviously

00:26on this beautiful land behind and all six farmers

00:29fields that stretch from here to Bramley that is actually everybody's

00:34go-to place for mental health and mental well-being.

00:39My name's Claire Coniston and I live on Bramley

00:43over there and all this has always been farmland

00:47and losing the farmland we just never get it back and the food production back.

00:53Right so there's six farmers fields in total that they would be taking away to

00:58build this concrete jungle. These fields are owned by I believe Sheffield

01:04City Council and the farmer would rent these fields off him

01:09and put plant crops. The crops haven't been planted this year

01:14so this is really a bad sign. My name's Trevor Ebert

01:16this is my wife Jack Ebert. We've lived here at number one Beaver Drive for 43 years

01:23so we obviously like it around here and one of the the biggest draws for us is the fields at the back

01:30that that I will say during Covid I were in clinically vulnerable group so I virtually couldn't

01:36leave my doorstep but my doctor allowed me to walk in these fields and I'm sure they're the thing

01:44that people do not consider when they put in planning through or approval for planning and rest of it.

01:51That was a lifesaver for both me and my wife.

01:54I won the Starwalk in 1983 the Sheffield Starwalk and part of my training was stamina building which I

02:03used the same woods again that they're looking to destroy.

02:07An extra 860 odd houses that would be in the distance and all through the six farmers fields

02:14and on this area would have even more congestion and extreme effects of pollution.

02:20We have a woodpecker which you can obviously difficult to get a photo of that you can hear it.

02:25We've got owls on here which you hear early morning and night and then you've also got

02:31the bats which obviously used to dive on me and my friend when we were walking our dog.

02:35I just feel very passionate as do a lot of other people living here and around about on both estates

02:42that we have got such a beautiful area and the animals have a right to live here.