Object

Representation ID: 12366

Received: 05/10/2021

Respondent: Mrs Christine Nash

On 5th September, I emailed a response to you objecting to the land opposite Lodge Lane, Kingswinford being allocated for housing. The reasons included loss of green belt and pressure on health services.

I would now like to add these additional comments which relate more specifically to access to Warren Gardens, Kingswinford.

Warren Gardens is situated near the intersection between Lodge Lane and Cot Lane. This intersection is controlled by traffic lights. At busy times, there is a back up of traffic waiting at the traffic lights and this means it can be difficult to drive into or leave Warren Gardens. If a large housing estate was built on the Kingswinford triangle, the traffic queues at this intersection will be longer and access and exit from Warren Gardens onto Cot Lane will be further compromised.

Also, the road from Lodge Lane to Dudley is a really busy road as it provides a route into the Black Country from the A449. It is also used by the ambulance services from Russell’s Hall to also access parts of South Staffordshire including Kinver. The building of a large housing development on Lodge Lane will only add to an already heavily congested road. I am concerned that it will increase travelling times for ambulances and families taking sick patients to Russell’s Hall Hospital.

I do hope that my concerns will be considered when you are finalizing the Black Country plan. I understand the need to build houses but there are so many brownfield sites in the Black Country which need to used first before we encroach on the small amount of green belt that we have left in Kingswinford.

Yours faithfully,

I wish to object to the land adjacent to Lodge Lane Kingswinford, commonly known as “the triangle” being allocated for housing.

There is so little green belt land in the Dudley Borough that we have a duty to preserve what we have left. The paths running through the land are used by the local residents for exercise and an escape from the built up nature of the area. The area also attracts wildlife.

We have brownfield sites in the Black Country which need to be smartened up. They need to be used first for housing before we encroach on green belt.

Allocation of housing to this area would also put even more pressure on our health services in Kingswinford which are already overstretched.

Christine Nash