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Representation ID: 17060

Received: 20/09/2021

Respondent: Friends of Sheepwash Nature Reserve

WE OBJECT TO SITE ALLOCATIONS SAH088 AND SAH098 IN SANDWELL AS UNSUSTAINABLE AND IN OPPOSITION TO THE POLICY of The Black Country Local Nature Recovery Opportunity Map (draft April 2021) which we support.
The principle thrust of our objection to this plan are the unsustainable housing allocations centred in the Lower Tividale area, and in particular on an area of green space linked to Sheepwash which is part of the wider canal corridor. Together, this adds up to 607 new homes in an area less than a mile square, on an already saturated housing estate built on former agricultural land.

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Objections relate to contamination of land and surrounding area and lack of remediation, loss of wildlife habitat, presence of unoccupied houses and other buildings in Sandwell that could be used for housing and historical failure to bring site forward for development through allocation in previous plans.