Object

Draft Black Country Plan

Representation ID: 10884

Received: 27/08/2021

Respondent: Miss Helen Waldron

Representation Summary:

Roads - already the local roads around this area are very very busy and not everyone is back at work yet so when they are it will be grid locked without the added pressure of all these new houses and cars. Dangerous for walkers and residents with higher risk of accidents . Causing more polution, CO2 emissions, noise, public transport delays, pressure on the enviroment and drivers taking short cuts through the existing estates.
More pressure on local NHS services - The doctors and dentist surgeries in this are are already bursting at the seams and it is hard to get appiontments. The added pressure on Russels Hall hospital with even more people to treat, even longer ambulance waiting times who won't get through because of the added traffic on the roads. There are a high number of elderly people and the old peoples homes in this area who will be greatly affected by this as they won't be able to get the help they need.
Schools - This is a sort after area for schools and people move here because of them, however they do not have the spaces to accomodate even more children forcing families to have to travel outside the area for schools which will also add to the increasing volume of traffic and polution.
Enviromental issues - loss of the green belt land. Holbeache is very good agricultural land and it is Grade 2, where a range of crops can be grown. The hedgerows all around Holbeache and a small plot to the left form a Sites of Local Importance to Nature Conservation, so building here would destroy the habitat of protected species such as bats as well as the owls, red kites and buzzards who are sited in this area. The loss of bees and butterfies due to the lack of polinating plants will also be an impact which we need to be encouraging not destroying.
This area is renown for walkers, runners, cyclists and is an amazing place for this and in this ever increasing world of mental health issues is so imortant to this area. It needs to be protected for future generations. Wallheath currently has no youth centre or sports centre so this is it for us and we are desperate to protect what we do have which makes this an unique and wonderful place to live. By taking all the green belt away and building even more housing which won't be affordable to anyone unless they are wealthy it will destroy this area in every way.
There are already big new housing estates on Stallings Lane and a new one to be built on Stallings lane which has increased the pressure on Kingswinford and Wallheath it would be a disaster to do even more and make us a sprall of concrete increasing the risk of flooding and adding to the major issue of global warning. The govement committed to a 25 year plan to protect land of Holbeache's quality please follow this committment and throw this ridiculous plan in the bin