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Representation ID: 11050

Received: 08/09/2021

Respondent: Mrs Susan Helm

Re Black Country Plan
I am writing to oppose any development on the piece of land known locally as the Corbett Meadow in Amblecote. This is a beautiful green haven in a built up area which is important for local people to have for their mental health. The area is home to a wide range of flora and fauna including foxes, bats, owls, frogs and toads and protected trees.
The impact of development will take away this much needed green space and will have a detrimental effect on the area in terms of air pollution, noise pollution and roads chaos.
The existing infrastructure of congested roads and local facilities such as GPs surgeries, schools and other services cannot cope with more housing development in an already congested area.
There are already housing developments being constructed within 1 - 2 miles at the bottom of Old Wharf Road and in Brook Street on the old Longlands school all adding to pressures on infrastructure.
Green spaces bring great health benefits to the local community and to build on this untouched land would be detrimental to the people, the area and to wildlife.
If the land has been identified as worth preserving as a green space from 2024 how can it be right to build on it before then.
Please put forward my objections to the development of this green space.