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Representation ID: 16858

Received: 10/10/2021

Respondent: Friends of the Earth

Agent: Gerald Kells

The plan includes a number of housing developments in locations we consider
to be unsustainable in terms of carbon emissions and damaging to the both
the ecological biodiversity and the access to the countryside and nature
within Walsall, as well as in other locations in the Black Country. We are
particularly concerned that nine significant sites are designated to be
removed from the Green Belt, including two, the Arboretum site and the
Sutton Road site, which would directly impact on the very important natural
and amenity value of the Arboretum and its surrounding area. This
undermines the good efforts of the Council and others to plant trees and
renature areas around the Arboretum and to gain the benefit of the canal
network as it passes under Longwood Lane and behind the Sutton Road.

See table in attachments