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Representation ID: 15782

Received: 01/10/2021

Respondent: David Baker

3) It seems that Walsall town planners are hell bent on increasing urban sprawl by reducing/ removing green belt. By proposing the Queslett road East/ Aldridge Road site, the green space between Birmingham and Walsall disappears in that area allowing a merger of housing with one side of the road in Birmingham and the other in Walsall.

4) There seems little thought to infrastructure needed to accommodate these additional houses. In Walsall it is extremely difficult to get on a doctors list as most are at full capacity. There are no NHS dentists willing to take new patients on. The hospitals are over capacity. There are insufficient ambulances for the number of patients requiring them. Schools are at capacity. There are vague references to new health centres and junior schools being required but no details as to when and where they are to be situated (are they to be built on more green belt land?). Roads around Walsall are very congested already and new housing will only add to it. There are no proposals to mitigate these concerns