Comment

Representation ID: 14045

Received: 22/09/2021

Respondent: Mrs Edwina Roberts

I have just had a flyer posted through my door regarding the Blackcountry plan for the future.

Can I make a comment as someone who is absolutely affected by any change to building in my local area (due to surface flooding and sewers not able to take the strain during storms) are the planners aware that the old infrastructure cannot cope with all this new build.

We know for a fact that Severn Trent have no plans in the foreseeable future to upgrade anything, so where does this leave us in our dotage and unable to protect our home.

Walsall Council are already guilty of giving planning permission for houses to be built on gardens and added to systems that could not cope before they were built, but it seems to me that they are giving our planning permission willy nilly with no thought for the consequences to the people already in situ.

Our children need green spaces to play in.

Don’t the powers that be have the brains to realise for every tree cut down it is the death knell to the planet, global warming is more to do with the loss of trees due to them being chopped down, that is where the blame lies and until this is recognised we are all doomed to a hopeless future.

Councils are a waste of space, they just collect, collect, collect and aren’t really interested in the human left behind.