Support

Representation ID: 17080

Received: 29/09/2021

Respondent: Ms Helen Cook

Site Ref 10516 Corbett Meadow
Policy DSA4 Local Green Space Designation (LGS).
I fully support the proposal for the Corbett Meadow to be designated as a Local Green Space. The meadow is three parts surrounded with high-density housing and medical services, with an excess of small narrow very busy access roads often littered with parked cars leading onto Vicarage Road. Being a resident in [Road] it has become an extremely busy A class Road with dangerous bends especially by the vicinity of the meadow and hospital entrances. Vicarage Road historically was a rural lane and over the years has had alterations in all ways to try to widen it. The meadow makes a welcome breathing space from this outer cluttered infrastructure and for patients and visitors to the hospital to see a green open space is relaxing and pleasing to the eye.
The North of the meadow provides a very important connectivity to the Coalbourne brook valley and a vital link for the passage of wildlife to and from our canal and river systems through the urban green corridors. It is valuable historic grassland, proven by the types of flora it sustains. It has remained untouched by herbicides and fertilisers to this day, it is rare in such an urban environment and within the Dudley Borough.
The Corbett Meadow holds a variety of habitats (1) Two established ponds, important breeding grounds for declining amphibian species. (2) Wetland area. (3). Mature trees, eco systems in themselves, some of veteran age especially the row of Hawthorns on the Eastern Bank. These Hawthorn trees are home to the rare Hawthorn Jewel Beetle, I believe the first recorded within the Dudley Borough by local Nature expert

It is the dramatic topography of the meadow that is eye-catching making it visually attractive. To destroy such a beautiful area with the wildlife that it holds would be a devastating loss. It is much more worthy of a higher designation as an LNR as its present designation is a SLINC and would like to see the meadow considered for such a designation, with it's potential as a local nature reserve and connecting it to the Coalbourne Brook Valley.