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Representation ID: 14304

Received: 30/09/2021

Respondent: Alina Chalkia

Site locations: WAH236, Yorks Bridge, Lichfield Road, Pelsall
WAH 238, Vicarage Road/Coronation Road, High Heath
WAH 240, Mob Lane, High Heath
As a resident of the Pelsall community, I object to the proposed plans to build on green belt land.
There have to be questions raised as to whether all brownfield sites have been thoroughly
investigated and exhausted. Maintaining certain levels of open space where members of the
community can enjoy fresh air and countryside should remain a priority for the black country plan.
Green belt land serves as a habitat to countless wildlife, the destruction of which will lead to
unnecessary loss of biodiversity, thereby contradicting your baseless promise to enhance the
biodiversity in the area.
The importance of the countryside has never been so apparent as during lockdown, when people
were only allowed to leave their homes for daily exercise. The area which you propose to build over
700 houses on, offered myself, and many others, somewhere to keep physically fit. Even more
importantly, the walking trail improved my mental health by offering peace and quiet from an
otherwise busy, urban area. The ability to enjoy the wildlife and flora in such testing times was a
lifeline to so many of us. Depriving the community of this pleasure would be to tarnish the values
on which this community is founded. Your promise to preserve the character of the surrounding
neighbourhoods is by nature paradoxical as you are proposing to tear out a crucial component of its
stability.
Further, I would like to object to the practical ramifications of your proposed plan. The dramatic
increase in the footfall and traffic the houses will create is arguably unsustainable considering the
current infrastructure in place. The current levels of traffic on Coronation Road and Vicarage
Rd/Fordbrook Ln are overly congested during peak times, therefore, an increase of this magnitude
is simply incompatible.
Pelsall lacks the amenities to deal with such an influx in population. The village is a modest size and
parking is more often than not at full capacity during peak times. The proposed number of new
households relying on the supplies of this community would make it oversaturated and unworkable