Object

Representation ID: 13073

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Mrs Beverley Grigg

REFERENCE .. THE TRIANGLE QUH211 PAGE 371
My obiection to to the loss of our Green Belt as part of the Black country Plan
Road Network
The Triangle is bounded by three already busy and dangerous roads and the development of the site with 533 more homes would see as a minimum another 1000 vehicles pouring out onto these routes and they just can not absorb that level of increased traffic.

Lodge Lane is already at capacity especially when the children arrive at and leave school. The road is also a key route out onto the A449 where its junction is always busy and often a cause of traffic delays on the main A449. Lodge Lane has already seen at least 1 fatality in recent years as well as numerous accidents at its junction on Summerhill lights. Any access from the development of the Triangle onto Lodge Lane would not only compound the traffic chaos at peak times but further endanger the lives of the children using Summerhill school.

Access from the development of the Triangle into Swindon Road would again prove very dangerous as this is a very fast road (even though it is a 30mph area) and there are already 3 roads linked onto it servicing hundreds of homes on the Briarscroft Estate. In addition to this Swindon Road is also a key route onto the A449 as well as a main route onto Swindon village and beyond. It is always busy and especially so at peak times.

The A449 is a major route in the area and already carries a significant amount of traffic which invariably causes severe traffic jams in Wall Heath village at key times of the day. Any access from the Triangle development onto this road would be extremely dangerous and have a major impact on traffic flow especially if the plan were to connect the development into the A449/Swindon Road island.

In short the road infrastructure around the Triangle is insufficient to cope with this huge degree of development but this is also the case for the road network further afield from the Triangle through Wall Heath, Kingswinford and Wordsley all of which routes are grinding to a halt with the existing level of traffic.

Schools
This level of development on the Triangle with 533 homes would mean we need more schools. Whilst a developer might be happy to build them at their cost to gain the right to build on the site it is Dudley MBC would would have to fund its running which means more cost to the Council Tax Payers, namely us.
HA1Aitals t Doctors t Qeottm
With a further 1500 plus people on this site alone how would our hospitals cope. Russells Hall is currently experiencing a 1O hour wait in A&E and the GP services and dentists are grinding to a halt not able to cope with current demands.

Food security
Whilst referred to as Green Belt it is actually farmland producing crops to help feed the nation. At this time when food security is such a hot topic the last thing we need is to sacrifice land to housing that can produce food to feed our population.

Jbe Environment
The addition of 533 homes in such a confined area will inevitably impact on wildlife, air
pollution - there is a school of 1000 children just over the road, light pollution, increased risk of localised flooding, increase in noise as well as all of the impacts of construction traffic in the years of development..

Conclusion
We should be protecting our Green Belt, our Farm land at all cost in the face of an uncertain future for our food supplies. Stop flooding areas with new homes when there are already Brown Field sites that can be developed with existing facilities and infrastructure.