Object

Representation ID: 13174

Received: 09/10/2021

Respondent: Mr Joseph Ellison

[Site Ref: WAH242 Policy: WSA7]
My objection concerns the developments at Calderfields and Longwood Lane in Walsall and the increased road traffic they will create. The rush hour traffic backs up in Mellish road often as for as Aldridge Road. Together 644 houses are planned and commuters from them who work to the West or Northwest or further afield using motorways will use Mellish Road as their access. Furthermore if Buchanan Road/Avenue is extended into the ‘Calderfields New Estate’ then its exit will be on the Mellish Road/Lichfield Road island creating further chaos.
I was born and bred in Walsall and have lived here all my life of 79 years. Walsall town centre is semi derelict and is surely one of the most grim urban centres in England, I am ashamed to see my once thriving busy market town so desperately run down with its empty shops and neglected appearance. It is so reduced, diminished and profoundly depressing.
My sad town does however have a number of attributers which to myself and my family consist of the New Art Gallery, The Leather Museum, the Arboretum and the green belt. Just to know that the green belt is there gives us a sense of wellbeing, where rural landscapes hide buildings we can imagine a better town which has not been neglected and cast aside now that its once prosperous industries have moved elsewhere.