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Representation ID: 12327

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Mr Adam Austin

[DUH 208 Holbeache
DUH 211 The Triangle]

As a resident of Wallheath I'm extremely concerned about the proposed developments at Holbeache and the Triangle. Firstly these are 2 areas of natural beauty (+ greenbelt) that the local community use + enjoy particularly during the Covid lockdown, when everyone's mental health + wellbeing were suffering. Being a resident of Wallheath I also think the developments would kill the village as the infrastructure of the village could not cope. Both developments one intended to create 900 new houses + our already overcrowded schools, Dr's, Dentists + other local necessities would not be able to cope. However in my opinion the biggest threat ate the state of the roads + traffic chaos the development would cause in Wall Heath. Wall Heath is already a bottle neck for traffic due to the 2 mini-islands on top of each other in the village, which also being on top of a pedestrian crossing. At rush house the road through Wall Heath (A449) is already chaotic. Furthermore when I go to work or to places I drive from my street onto Beechurst Rd + attempt to turn right onto the A449, this turn can take an eternity due to traffic on the A449 at Rush hour sometimes I went to turn right, but cannot due to the amount of traffic already there to turn left instead finding an alternative convenient place to turn my vehicle around. Moreover the Local Authority are already aware of this traffic chaos as they have a 'no right turn; signs from the A449 onto my estate, as passing vehicles would be queuing for a considerable time to turn right, but would not be able to due to the stream of traffic coming in the opposite direction. when you think that the development will add 900 new homes with an average 2 vehicles per home this will add another 1,800 vehicles to an already dire traffic situation.
Finally local services such as Fire, Ambulance + police which are already overstretched would have considerable increased demands in Dudley due to the 'Backcountry Plan', Particularly Wall Heath due to the 900 new homes that would be created. I understand that there is not enough housing on our overpopulated island however if you look at the 'Black country plan' + the way it seeks to add on this problem, it is extremely flawed and short sighted. There are other alternative such as brownfield sites + are more suitable locations that would not result in the loss of greenbelt land + would not create such local opposition, as the majority of wall heath residents are opposed to these developments. I'm aware that development + progress need to take place, but this not the way, but like a lot of fellow Wall Heath residents I'm concerned that this process is a sham and decisions have already been made behind closed doors, but to watermains + pipes already being installed. If this plan is passed the people of wall heath will remember those in positions of local power who made this happen.