Object

Draft Black Country Plan

Representation ID: 12820

Received: 20/09/2021

Respondent: Mr Terry Hartwell

Representation Summary:

I totally object to the proposal to build houses on the greenfield site adjacent to the Worcester Lane Stourbridge.
The reason for my objections are that this land is valuable agricultural land it is a valuable natural habitat for wildlife it is valuable land for leisure purposes for the local community.
It also creates a natural break between Worcestershire and Stourbridge.
The loss of this land to houses would create numerable problems, the increase in traffic would cause increase in pollution and in these times of global warming the loss of green land would also cause problems with flooding as the existing land soaks away any heavy rainfall which if the site was turned into tarmac and concrete the water would just run off creating more flooding problems.

These proposals are totally out of keeping with the local area the local infrastructure will be put under further strain i.e. schools doctors and dentist which already are overloaded with the current number of residents. Why when local councillors, members of parliament the mayor of the West Midlands conurbation all agree that no greenfield sites should be considered before all brownfield sites have been used, so why have the planners included any greenfield sites when there are Brownfield sites totally acceptable for building houses, is it a case that it is just easier to build on virgin land than on land that has to be cleared and prepared, increasing the cost for the developers with no benefit to the local community.

Any new housing development programs should be community lead not developer lead.