Comment

Representation ID: 13032

Received: 21/10/2021

Respondent: Miss Leanne Marlow

My household and I would like to oppose the proposed planning of ‘new housing land’ on Reedswood Park / Golf Course / surrounding areas.
We are fast running out of green areas within the Walsall Borough and this would be a direct contridiction to the Walsall Green Space Strategy.
Whilst this may be considered a ‘cheaper’ or ‘easier’ option than THE VAST amount of brown sites, increasing deralict buildings and countless unsightly wastelands within the area which would benefit from council funding and regeneration, at what cost would this be to the natural biodiversity, the health and wellbeing of locals and the wider air and water conditions of the Borough? This backwards thinking is fundementally going against what the Council is arguably fighting for as part of Agenda 21.

An Ecological Evaluation of BC Green Belt found this site to be of ‘High Ecological Value’ and The
Wildlift Trust have also issued a report to contest the plans for housing as they deem the space to be ‘a site of importance for nature conservation’. The continuation of this project would be an insult to their work, knowledge and expertise in the ecology of our local area, not to mention a disregard to the sustantial area of semi-natural habitat itself, that is home to countless birds, mamals, insects and amphibians.