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Representation ID: 12888

Received: 07/10/2021

Respondent: Margaret Mayock

MENTAL HEALTH
A walk along Doe Bank Lane is, and always has been, a tonic for improving mental health. Whether walking, dog walking, cycling, running, horse riding or just admiring the view, this provided a welcome break from the isolation for many many people during lockdown and has done for many years. There are hardly any places in Walsall with the views, the varieties of birds, trees and wild animals including [Redacted- sensitive information].
There are over 40 varieties of wold flowers growing alongside the hedgerows so there are probably many more in the fields. Mental health problems are increasing at an alarming rate and we must make sure that the countryside and places like this continue to provide peace.
ROADS
Aldridge Road, Brindle Lane and Doe Bank Lane are too narrow to cope with increasing amounts of traffic. The right turn from Doe Bank into Brindle Lane is an accident waiting to happen. The entrance from Aldridge Road into Brindle Lane is too narrow and difficult especially when one vehicle is turning in and one turning out. There is also a large number of vehicles using Brindle Lane. Many are large vehicles, vans and small trucks. At one point it is difficult to pass.
HEDGES, FIELDS AND TREES
In these times governments are having emergency talks about global warming, we should not be uprooting trees, hedges and fields when there are other places that can be used for housing such as town centres with shops abandoned and lying empty. These places should be considered first. World leaders realise we are running out of time, the planet must be protected and we are taking a backward step once more buildings, drives and roads are erected and concreted there will be unforeseen drainage problems.
EXTRA PEOPLE
School won’t cope. All schools are oversubscribed. The roads around the schools are cluttered with cars picking up and depositing children. Another accident waiting to happen. Extra people mean extra litter, more drug taking, fly tipping, dumping of garden refuse (from B’ham). Will there be more policing with the change: No! We don’t get policing now. Leave the countryside as it is. Once it’s gone it’s gone forever.
[PHEASEY SITE]
50 Years ago when I moved to Doe Bank Lane my next door neighbour said ‘you do know they are going to build over there’, pointing to the fields opposite. Well rumours have come and gone over the years. I hope this council will keep everything as it is in this area.
[Photo of children in Pheasey, 1947] Views of Pheasey from Stanhope Way before the building of houses and roads covered this area in the 1950s. The green fields were lost including a beautiful bluebell wood which stood in the area of Bonnington Way. On the plus side homes and schools were provided for people desperate for housing after the war. We do not need this devastation to happen again.