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Representation ID: 13773

Received: 10/10/2021

Respondent: Mr Philip Cooper

1. Coronation Road - Mob Lane Site

(i) Existing Infrastructure Problems
(a) Traffic at peak times, massive queues. A potential increase of 1,500 vehicles would only worsen the problem. Physically impossible to widen Coronation Road, which is often reduced to a single lane due to terraced housing occupants needing to park in road.
(b) proposed exists from new housing are dangerous due to restricted views caused by railway bridge and blind bends. A proposed plan to build a fire station to exit into Ford Brook lane was rejected on these grounds recently.
(c) radical changes in thinking needed because of lack of services e.g. schools, doctors, as they are already at breaking point. Additional population using shops in centre of Pelsall will put additional stress on parking which already exists and there is nowhere to use to find a solution to this problem except converting the common into a car park!!!??? The same common which would be needed to take the place of disappearing green belt land.

2. Coronation Road - Mob Lane Site

(D) maps show that proposed houses would be built on Ford Brook flood plain; when climate change is already showing increased rainfall causing flash flooding with disastrous effects. The Rhy Bridge in Ford Brook Lane is often impassable at such times and the brook floods into the fields.
(E) Access to Pelsall on foot is restricted by the distance involved (1 mile in each direction) so reliance on vehicle transport, the bus service is spasmodic.

Environmental Issues

(A) Green belt under threat is a prime nesting site for [Redacted-Sensitive information]. Over last few years definite increase in populations of [Redacted-Sensitive information] which is not reflected in other areas of the country, We also have a thriving population of [Redacted-Sensitive information]. I hope wild life surveys have been done before the submission of this proposal, this year I have noticed that the water quality of Ford Brook has improved sufficiently to support greater nos. of coarse fish - a welcome site.
(B) This land provides a wild-life corridor for many deer spreading out from Cannock Chase. Losing such green belt puts more pressure on important environment/leisure sites like Cannock Chase, Sutton Park, Pelsall Common to name just three, who already suffer from massive overcrowding.

3. Coronation Road - Mob Lane Site

(C) COVID Crisis. The many footpaths existing in this green belt, particularly over the last 2 years, provided a welcome sanctuary for many families to safely get some fresh-air, socially-distance, get much needed exercise and relieve anxiety. Currently, at least, 100 persons a day use these footpaths, they are well-walked, both by local people and those from further afield e.g. Brownhills, Walsall Woos, Hednesford, Burntwood to name just a few.

Where will this outdoor exercise continue, this pandemic is not over, reoccurrence is expected.

(iii) Brown Field Sites

The centre of Walsall if dead, it will not regenerate because shopping habits have changed for good, e.g. shopping on line, retail parks. There already exists in Walsall, services in place and adequate road systems to support a return to residential living. Arguments RE compulsory purchase problems do not hold water here because they exist just as much as in green belt areas. If the argument exists that brown field sites won't provide enough housing, then certainly the use of green belt land definitely needs greater research and planning involving local people and their views then presently exists.

4. Rumours exist that the Black Country Plan has been evolved over at least the last 5 years, so why is it only now that local people's views are being sort - surely this should be done from the outset, or are such plans deliberately kept out of the public view.