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Representation ID: 16506

Received: 03/10/2021

Respondent: Ian Newman

Lets first take a look at Netherhall Park, a development on the old St Margarets site. The housing appears quite close to one another with next to no frontage to the properties and parking for vehicles being insufficient. The garages are too small to park a vehicle in and hence this adds to the vehicles being parked on the streets.
Regarding the area services, ie schooling, medical etc. Again, the local schools I believe are already at the maximum capacity, especially as certain schools have children attending that don’t live locally and the medical situation, there has been no real increase in number of GP Surgeries to accommodate the extra number of households.
These I believe are just a couple of concerns for the existing residents that will be affected by the proposal to build housing between Doe Bank Lane, Great Barr and Aldridge Road, Streetly.
Not so long ago on Central TV, they advised on such areas “going back to nature”, the landowner gets paid for this as this helps with the environment, this was also mentioned on Clarkson’s Farm, a series following Jeremy Clarkson working his land and buying live stock etc.
So why can’t this land for the proposed development be left to aid the environment, which we all know is very much on peoples minds with the introduction of electric cars, renewable energy, led lighting, solar panels etc. etc.
Residents on the surrounding areas have spoken about this for years, rumours and all of a sudden it’s more of a reality but according to the latest detail that people have to hand, the info. has been available in libraries, town halls and on line.
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I’ve mentioned about vehicles or transport occasionally in the above, one way or another, so now, vehicles. Access from the Beacon Road through the “rabbit run”, that takes in Bridle Lane, Doe Bank Lane, Frampton Way and there after. Twenty miles per hour is the speed limit. If you don’t live here you don’t witness the drivers doing 40, 50mph down these roads. At the bottom of Frampton Way there is Meadow View School but this isn’t a deterrent. The “rabbit run” cuts out the traffic that backs up down the Beacon Road at the Cat and Fiddle and towards the Asda at the Old Horns. During “lockdown” [Redacted- sensitive information involving a bad traffic accident in Doe Bank Lane], lockdown, when people were supposed to have been not going out for anything other than essential journeys. Yes there is a bus route on the estate but we don’t require further traffic, including the vehicles toing and froing to the proposed development site.
With this development, I believe the situation will only get worse, Nine hundred and sixty houses, two cars per household, two children on average per household, you do the maths. The Collingwood GP Surgery, you can’t get an appointment now, let alone if YOU add more numbers to their registered list of patients.
If this proposal has actually been going on for “X” amount of time, how is it that only now has it really come to light,