Object

Representation ID: 10886

Received: 16/09/2021

Respondent: Mr Colin Taylor

Green Belt Dudley DUH208 Holbeach - I strongly object to the removal of the green belt status for this site. Not only does it provide valuable habitat for skylarks, buzzards, bats, owls, foxes,, insects and is also used thankfully to the owner, a place of exercise for people of the Charterfield estate. The next nearest exercise in the open country space is a further 1/2 mile to reach which is indeed Staffordshire. This land will be needed now as we leave Brexit to feed the country with the produce we normally get from abroad. If we keep using up farms, then there is no food for the extra people.
Infrastructure Dudley DUH208 Holbeach: I have lived here since 1984 and have gradually seen the increase in traffic over the years on my commute to West Bromwich for work and how difficult as times it is just to get back home. We have had increased supermarkets which brings traffic in from other areas and Morrisons / Safeway was recognised as one of the busiest in the country. The Pensnett trading estate is 4 times bigger than it was with increase of heavy haulage. We have no way of getting of Chartefields safely and is getting very difficult to turn off into Stallings lane. We have no immediate rail network station so we have to catch a bus to the station before we even pay for the train the cost of getting there is greater so we just use the car as people will. Building these homes will put at least another 1000 cars in the locality with no roads or rail to get in or out easily.
Waste Dudley DUH208 Holbeach: We are now getting increasingly surrounded by waste tips and the smell and dust from them at times, especially at night when it goes damp leaving us to close our windows.
The noise from the metal transfer station is also getting unbearable which also means we have to close our windows. They start work at 7:30 on saturdays also which goes on all day. The roll-on-offs are just tipped up onto the floor and then the waste is scraped into their containers. Where will the extra waste go?
Health Dudley DUH208 Holbeach: We currently have difficulty in making doctors appointments and even telephone conversations with doctors and many people just go the accident unit at Russell's Hall making that over stretched. Where will approximately 800 extra people go to the doctors? There is also a large number of children in the area with existing asthma related problems my son included extra traffic in the area will not help air quality.
There will also be the dust created by the site filtering over to the estate also giving poor air quality, this could be ongoing for a number of years.