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Representation ID: 15111

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Mr Sandra Wickson

Site Ref: 10131/SA-0022-WAL
Home Farm Sandhills Walsall Wood WS9 9DJ

My house directly overlooks Home Farm, we brought our property some 20 years ago, due to its location and situation, for which I have no doubt we paid a premium for, the proposed development will significantly affect our quality of life, as well as devaluing our *property.
* As everyone is fully aware, homeowners are finding the value of their property is the major factor in the funding of care in their old age, this proposal has this double financial impact on homeowners surrounding the development site.

In addition I comment:

! There are numerous species of wildlife that inhabit the fields of Home Farm, ranging from foxes to deer, Canada Geese in August (for around 3 weeks), there are birds of prey, woodpeckers and bats along with starlings, crows, pigeons, magpies, blackbirds, thrushes and robins to name just a few, where will they go??

Traffic in and around the A452/A461 junction is already chaotic at times, but my concern is how will the roads cope with another 800 households, generally with 2 cars nowadays, so potentially 1600 cars entering and exiting our already congested roads?

A461 Lichfield Road Sandhills has seen it's fair share of serious accidents over the years, along with a student of nearby Shire Oak School being killed at Anchor Bridge Unc Chester Road and Linden road), which I am sure are well documented, this is the exact road infrastructure that will have to carry the additional 1500+ cars daily!