Object

Representation ID: 16491

Received: 07/10/2021

Respondent: Ian and April Cooper

Number of people: 2

We are writing in responce to the proposed development in Great barr, between Doe bank lane, Bridle lane the area is marked as a "Proposed large housing site"
On this site yo propose some 960 houses which out of the 4347 that you are suggesting amounts to 22%. You also say that the majority of the 13,344 new houses will be provided in the urban and brownfield site well 7,926 is also 59% which is not the majority it is 9% greater than half. A lot of the sums just do not add up, that is the opening issues.
The the demarkation of the conservation area will decimate the wildlife in those fields there are all sorts of flora and thorna that cannot be replaced. You will be creating a massive influx of people into and already crowded area. The current road infrastructure cannot cope with the existing traffic let alone the massive increase as propsed. The local schools and health services are already at full stretch without any increase.
I do not think the way this has been handled shows the council off to any great light and the way it has been advertised has been most underhanded.
I quote the following;
"It's unclear to me if planning permission is being sought for the site yet, however to do so they will be required to submit an ecological report including [Redacted-sensitive information]survey (which they will possibly fail as I see [Redacted-sensitive information]all the time, but unfortunately not an ecologists and can't confirm) and some kind of preliminary risk assessment of the site (PRA, also commonly called Phase 1 geo environmental desk study), within these risks to local infrastructure, particularly Barr Beacon LNR, should be assessed, so I would be very interested to see this!
Following a desk study if the site is found to be suitable to build on (likely in this case) is almost always a site investigation, where boreholes or trial holes are drilled/dug onsite, anyone living on Doe Bank lane may want to keep their eyes open for this, unfortunately by this point the land owner will have forked out a fair whack of money for this, meaning it's probably too late in the process as they feel confident they can build at least something here."
We request the following;
The ecological report and phase one desk study (PRA) of the site prior to the closure of the consultation period.
Please add our signatures to the objections;