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Representation ID: 17123

Received: 08/10/2021

Respondent: Mr James Westwood

I was devastated to hear of the prospective building of homes on the Bluebell Woods farmland on the Northway to Colton hills borders. It is a historic green belt where we have found musket balls from the English Civil War simply sitting on the surface of the soil. There is such an immense beauty to be found there in the natural landscape, wildlife and history in the ground. It also offers a place for multitudes of dog walkers to go every single day.

It is a haven for all manner of declining species like foxes, birds, and bats. The latter of which I would often watch hunt there in the early hours. It was also the first place I saw a hedgehog and slow worm in the wild. It would disrupt the imediate birdlife and in turn, affect the populations that frequent the gardens of surrounding residents. It would make travelling along the Wolverhampton Road incredibly arduous too as it is a main road connecting Dudley to Wolverhampton.

To forsake this green belt area in the name of housing developments is doubly cruel when there is such an abundance of brown belt elsewhere in the Black Country.

I am imploring you to spare this beautiful area and to consider building on brown belt elsewhere in it's stead.

Thank you.