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Representation ID: 12991

Received: 01/10/2021

Respondent: Mr Ben Wilkinson

Site REf:10131/SA-0022-WAL
Home Farm Sandhills Walsall Wood WS9 9DJ

I relocated my business from the Birmingham suburbs to assist with its operation, predominantly because of the traffic congestion in and around the city, our customers were finding it difficult to make timed repair appointments and if we had to attend customers vehicles, on road breakdowns or on site servicing, we found traffic issues cost us valuable working time.

Not forgetting the journey times for our employees trying to get to and from work.

Our relocation to Brownhills means we are easier to access for our visiting customers, we can 'get out to' ouir custmers easier due to our depots location and staff can get to work quicker than before.

The A452/A461 intersection is an extremely busy junction, the junction at Anchor Bridge (Lindon Rd/High Street A452 Brownhills) backs up at peak times now, my staff are specialist technician, one travels from the Leicestershire border, one from the Worcestershire border, both find the route via A5/A461 better than trying to access Birmingham.

The impact this proposed development will have on already busy junctions doesnt bear thinking about and will be detrimently to our business.