Support

Representation ID: 17088

Received: 08/10/2021

Respondent: Mr Martin Parker

I would like to voice my very strong objection to any development or loss of green space in the Clockfields estate along with the other estate residents. We were advised against a communal purchase when the land went up for sale for £15k in 2011 on the basis that the council would protect it from any development. All the residents of the estate were fully assured the land would never be built on by the then councillor of the ward and former Dudley mayor, Pat Mar n, who organised the tree preservation order in the interests of the estate residents to protect all the trees including the Black Country Urban Forest planted in 2001. The land shows as green space on most maps and should be protected as per the council brownfield first policies. The campaign and opposition to building on the land has been supported by Mayor Andy Street, all the ward councillors (past and present) and our local MP Suzanne Webb.
Please can adequate and appropriate protection be placed on this green space as with other green spaces in the borough if brownfield sites are priori sed.

I would also like to support the proposed designation of the Corbett Meadow under Policy DSA4 as an Area of High Historic Landscape Value, also referenced under Policy ENV5