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Representation ID: 16244

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: David Round

Dear Sirs,
I
As you can see I live on Blanford Mere at the bottom of Stallings Lane. The estate has only one way into the
the estate. With recent developements on brown fields sites at the top of Stallings Lane it now take
considerable time to exit the estate for general commute. Further developement in the area will make this
sistuation even worse as the increase in traffic will make local roads virtually unusable. NOTE - building
traffic islands (as you have previously buuilt) does not help it only slows things down. So without major
reconfiguaring of the raod network building more houses in the area will create so much traffic conjestion that
/you may as well extend Birminghams conjestion charge to the area as well to protect air quality. It is bad
enough that we have a landfill chucking out stink 24/7. I quite frequently have bad throats as a result.
I Also ... the fields around Kingswinford supply such great benefit for local excercise and provide aquality of
life in recreation in the local area. As a critical worker, who was made redundant last March, despite working
for over 12 months straight withour a holiday or a break I have found these excercise paths of a daily walk
through Wallheath, onto the canals then across the fields back towards Summer Hill to be very beneficial
these last 6 months or so. Just reinforcing the importance of our local green spaces.
As you have given permission for water service capacity to be increased through Wallheath these last 12
months I fear that there is something very wrong with the decision making processes for these developemnt
proposals. You will be destroying critical green spaces that when the fields are left to fallow they are awash
with will flowers and a stunning poppy display. natures diversity should be maintained NOT detroyed as you
are proposing.
Having viewed recent videos of council meetings it appears you are making decisions based on political gain
and not in the interest of local residents. You are civil servants, paid to assist the local community. Do the
right thing and block these local planning applications. To save local woodland, archielogigal sites and
maintain teh green belt for future generations instaed of building Dudley into a mass concreat jungle into
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Wolverhampton and then on to Stafford-which you also seem to be ignoring planning permission form
Staffordshire also.