Object

Representation ID: 16432

Received: 09/10/2021

Respondent: Dianne Dimbylow

ref: draft-bcp-jdi-version-v2-2907
What of the Prime Ministers promise not to build on greenbelt!??
Central government have also stated:
a) To check the unrestricted sprawl of large built-up areas.
b) To prevent neighbouring towns merging into one another.
c) To assist in safeguarding the countryside from encroachment.
d) To assist in urban regeneration by encouraging recycling derelict and other urban land.
• Walsall have a document named ‘A Masterplan to Create the UK’s Healthiest Town Centre’! How does taking away green fields relate to this. It is laughable!
• The consultation process has been discriminatory. Guidance states that authorities are encouraged to use social media tools and other platforms to communicate with the community, where appropriate. Authorities are remined to use concise, visual evidence, written in plain English to help ensure that it is easily accessible to local communities, to avoid them becoming disengaged in the process.
The reliance on a centralised website, which is deemed to meet guidelines regarding community and public engagement discriminates against those who cannot use the internet, do not use the internet or do not have the necessary IT skills to navigate it.
Not all use public libraries or attend centres. on Pheasey we dont have a libary the council took it away from us.
More time should be allowed for consultation. Thousands of booklets and leaflets remain at Walsall town hall. If Walsall council can deliver council bills to every house then surely they can deliver a letter regarding the Black Country Plan?
• People are disenfranchised and this consultation is seen as a sham. Public confidence must be maintained and the process transparent. The feeling of every single person I’ve spoken to is that the consultation is pre-judged.
To support this, having already lost land to the Foxhill’s site to development, is now known locally by a few that land opposite Barr Beacon school is to be built on. This is not in the Black Country plan!
• Some people I have spoken to have discarded information I have delivered because they never even knew the Barr Beacon, Pheasey/Park Farm was even part of the Black Country! Which we are not.
• In June 2021 the Wildlife Trust published a report, the ‘Green Recovery Report’, which demonstrates the importance of nature in recovery from the current pandemic.
The mental health impact of green spaces and the well-being of locals cannot be emphasised enough.
• Around Barr Beacon, Aldridge road Doe bank Lane, Queslett road East There is a network of established hedge-rows containing mature trees including oak. Of late 6 listed birds have been seen there. I have seen deer there.
SLINCs (Sites of local importance to nature conservation). Doe Bank wood is listed and therefore the surrounding land is a corridor for wildlife.
• The Urban Bat project began in 2017 and speaks of the importance of urban biodiversity. Has a survey been commissioned? Is it available to the public? Bats have been seen on the land along with insects, bees, butterflies, ladybirds and crickets etc
• Is the water feed from Barr Beacon reservoir to be destroyed?
• When was the traffic modelling done? What day and what time? It is not advisable to travel between 8-9.30am & 4-6pm around the ‘Asda island’ at Queslett Road and the Aldridge Road towards Perry Barr, Beacon road, such are the traffic conditions. As a local you do not leave the house between these times unless you have to. Yet you choose to release hundreds, if not thousands of extra vehicles on the local residents. What of the noise pollution, not only whilst development is underway but afterwards as well.
What of the extra air pollution? We are already bordered by the M6 and have one of the busiest motorway intersections in Europe at junction7.
What of the extra burden on schools, where class sizes are already too large, Doctors surgeries? You cannot get an appointment now! We just cannot cope with any more residents.
• Fear of crime! What about the extra crime that comes with more people, we have enough to deal with now, we haven't got a police station for miles and the police force is stretched to its limits now and as a Park Farm resident and being on the outskirt of the policing area we get little attention and response times are obviously slower or nonexistent. We are the forgotten neighbourhood!
• Our pavements are cracked and broken and grass verges are unkept, I said this to one of the planning people at the town hall meeting, she said new houses will generate more council tax, I said I pay council tax so whats that being used for? Makes me so angry and its not good enough.
We already have to live with the mistakes of the 60's we have the M6 bordering us on Park Farm which is a constant buzz please learn from the mistakes of the past
You have a job to do. One which perhaps your supervisors or paymasters have dictated to you the outcome already. What legacy will you leave behind for your children? You may not live in this area but these consultations are going on UK wide. You must play your part.
Solent Green was a futuristic film where people visited cinema type rooms to see trees and wildlife because there were none left.

Green fields When they're gone, they're gone!


• Land at Queslett Road East and Aldridge Road is presently conservation land that the conservation appraisal wishes to change the boundary thereby allowing you to build. This is scandalous. For you to say it will not harm our heritage is clearly wrong. What has changed in the last 25 years to make this so? A company from London RPSgroup!?
• It is absolutely incredible that we have to accommodate any housing development that Birmingham cannot manage their quota for housing so we have to take their quota, because it has no green space of its own. How is this remotely fair. We live in Great Barr because of its rural setting, it is our escape and if it was not for this green belt conservation land then most of us would have gone mad during lockdown. And you want to take it away from us. I and everyone I have spoken to is against any housing being built on Any of our Green fields, green belt, conservation protected land.

• Animal population is down 60% in 40 years.
• Has the application been supported by an Environmental Impact Statement in accordance with the Town & Country planning rules 2017? If not, I object under the National Planning Policy Framework. Guidance in July 2021 and March 2014 states that decisions at every level should seek to approve application for planning from sustainable development.
• Planning decisions should contribute to and enhance the natural and local environment by protecting and enhancing valued landscapes and sites of biodiversity or geographical value, recognise the intrinsic character and beauty of the countryside.
• There will undoubtably be a negative impact on the ecology and habitat that exist within these areas. Endangered species will be wiped out.