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Representation ID: 15540

Received: 07/10/2021

Respondent: Mr Tim Bickley

Site ref:10131/SA-WAL Home Farm Sandhills Walsall Wood WS9 9DJ
I thought farmland was for growing food for the nation!!!
How is a development of 800 houses going to help this cause??
I travel daily for my work and use A461 / A452 to reach A5 / M42 / M6 Toll etc depending where i am heading on said day - primarily because trying to access the M6 / M5 via the Walsall / Gt Barr junction is dier!
Put this housing estate in and I will be trapped in traffic! How am I supposed to get to my service calls.
I appreciate all the relevant "traffic modelling" will be done. but look at the new estate in Norton Canes (old dog track) WHG have houses there I understand - now in a morning 8.30am the queue for exiting Norton Canes, via Hednesford Rd B4154, to join A5 at the Turf island can be back as far as Jerome Road (Yew Tree Rd) - assuming relevant "traffic modelling" was done for this estate - epic fail!
For Home Farm Sandhills, I am told there "could be" a 4 way traffic light junction at Anchor Bridge A452 / B4152 intersection - this junction is already a problem - at peak evening time - traffic can stack up from Anchor Bridge to Shine Oak A452 / A461 now - how are an additional 800 houses going to affect it?