Object

Representation ID: 14773

Received: 10/10/2021

Respondent: Andrew Rawson

Number of people: 2

As residents of the area for over 40 years, we the above wish to submit the following comments and objections to the proposed Black Country Plan, specifically Queslett Road East/Aldridge Road Streetly.

Our road opens onto the Queslett Road, Queslett roundabout end and already can have long delays crossing the dual-carriageway to turn right due to congestion caused by traffic queuing from Aldridge Road and traffic queuing towards Aldridge Road. A development of some 900+ houses potentially having two cars per household will add considerably to this congestion.
In the interim period during the construction the impact would be catastrophic as there would be multiple construction vehicles enterig and exiting the site, causing chaos and obstruction to the already overburdened surrounding roads.

Aldi supermarket chain had planning application turned down on the grounds of additional burden on the overcongested island at Queslett Road/Beacon Road and the destruction of mature woodland on a nature reserve site.


There is an oversubscribed primary school off the Aldridge Road and a secondary school off the Queslett Road, the pollution produced from the excessive number of vehicles is potentially life threatening to our young people, as well as residents.

It is obvious the current road infrastructure would not cope. So, is the alternative to be changes to the rural Bridle Lane, which will disappear and have impact on the surrounding greenbelt.

The impact of 900+ families moving to the area will have an enormous and detrimental affect on the services in the area. Doctors surgeries already are unable to cope with their patient numbers and schools are oversubscribed. And if developers draw up plans promising to include new provision, these rarely get fulfilled.