Object

Representation ID: 14265

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Mrs Lesley Hopkins

I write with concerns and objections to the proposed use of green belt land for housing in this area. Under the proposal a very large amount of green belt land will be swallowed up for an in depth
development. Whilst we are being urged to plant trees in an effort to reverse climate change this plan will destroy mature trees and hedgerows.

With particular reference to the proposal for land along Woodhayes Road this throws up a number of issues:

a) Access is very difficult. All routes to and from the site lead from narrow lanes to blind corners on the A460 or to traffic lights on the busy Blackhalve Lane.

b) Building here will destroy a long standing animal sanctuary and damage a stream which has food plants for orange tip butterflies among others.

c) Part of the land in this scheme includes a field which was left, many years ago, as an open space for recreation. How can this be included in a building project?

d) If this plan goes through where will the residents send their children to school? Some of the local school have been closed or demolished. Where will GP facilities come from? It is difficult to get GP care now without a large influx of new people.

e) In this area alone there are brown field sites e.g. a derelict pub and a vast swathe of land from the demolished Northicote School. Both of these sites would add to existing communities without creating a separate community. Why ruin greenbelt when such sites exist?

The whole plan for this area will leave virtually no green belt on this side of Wolverhampton and take the area right up to the border with Staffordshire which was deemed undesirable by Staffordshire a few years ago. Why is it desirable now?



There must be many brownfield sites within the Wolverhampton area. Why is it better to ruin greenbelt land rather than use up derelict sites?

Please leave the greenbelt alone and give thought to the quality of life for the existing residents of both the Woodhayes area and the area around Northycote Farm which is a very valuable asset to health and wellbeing of those who live here.