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Representation ID: 12535

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Mrs Edith Yarnold

Site Reference - WAH231 - Sutton Road / Longwood Lane. Strategic Allocation WS.6.
Comments below are made in reference to site WAH231 and refer to areas in various sections of the document.

Environment:
- As the site is a designated Site of Local Importance for Nature Conservation (SLINC) there is a serious loss of wildlife habitat which will arise as part of this proposed development. This needs to be protected.
- Various inconsistencies between plan and local site assessment reports around various environmental factors all relating to the WAH231 site.
- Serious health risk to Sutton Road/Orchard Hills residents from increased traffic pollution/noise.
- Increased stress to Sutton Road residents with construction work and loss of green space.

Town Planning, Infrastructure, Health and Wellbeing:
- Proposed site has no pedestrian and no cycle access. Also lack of any street lighting on Longwood Lane, and pavement.
- Sutton Road/Longwood Lane would be unable to cope with increased traffic congestion including access issues into Sutton Road with no proposed details of how this would be managed.
- Neighbouring areas such as Orchard Hills, Park Hall will see increased traffic as a result, only compounded by the fact that housing on this particular space will result in creation of a bottleneck within the local area causing disruption not just to residents but to schools, and businesses too.
- No capacity for increase in pupils at local schools and increased traffic as there is no feasible options for walking to schools which is encouraged across all local authority schools.
- Design Principles around more capacity for schools, and medical facilities are all hypothetical with no evidence in any of the proposals around how this will be achieved.
- Proposed dwellings per hectare (dph) of 35 indicated is out of character with local area.

Landowners for significant portions of the land have NOT been consulted throughout this process, and do NOT support the proposed development. Based on all the above I believe this should be removed from the Black Country Plan.