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Representation ID: 12324

Received: 01/10/2021

Respondent: Mr & Mrs Barry and Joan Richards

Number of people: 2

Dear Sirs.
We as long residents of Aldridge appose this plan for dozens of reasons mainly the damage it will do to Aldridge village with overcrowding, fewer available parking places, increased crime. There are many more which you will hear from this research.

Brownhills is surrounded by land unsuitable for farming whereas the land targeted is good arable farm farmland producing cereal crops in its entirety year on year. It is also rich in minerals which when exhausted can be turned back to farmland. Leaving the EU has left us at their mercy and buying food from them in the future is going to be expensive.
There are much better opportunities all round and certainly Brownhills which would benefit from the regeneration possibilities increased population would bring.
We once lived in a situation where such a development took place after we had bought the house and the crime rate went through the roof and the value of our properties suffered greatly and that will happen here and has probably started since your intension were made clear.
Above all, Andy Street in his election promises said that there would be no invasion into GREEN BELT! That statement, together with the regeneration of the West Midlands in general is why we voted for him turning politics aside.
Please do not do it.