Object

Representation ID: 16420

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Derry Jones

A general objection to building new housing on green-belt land, when there are numerous brown-field sites throughout the borough. Not only will this practice destroy precious green spaces, it will also be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the residents of Dudley borough.
Also, housing developed on Green-belt would by nature likely be premium properties and therefore command a higher sale price. This would do nothing to make the market accessible to first-time buyers or families on lower incomes. This would be unfair and would undermine the general goals of the housing plan in so much as it would not do anything to address the shortage of affordable housing stock.
Building on Brown-field sites would have the opposite outcomes.
It would improve the general environment and have less of an impact on existing infrastructures because certain utilities would most likely already exist. Likewise, service roads could be more easily adapted for access, rather than building new roads etc.