Object

Representation ID: 17443

Received: 08/10/2021

Respondent: Jane Stanley

Proposed large housing site (strategic allocation) WAH237 rear of Lazy Hill Rd etc. Pages 507 and 552-3.
I fully appreciate the need to provide good, affordable housing for everyone.
However, I strongly object to housing being placed on Green belt sites such as this one. Brownfield sites should be used.
We need housing but we also need the green belt. In this particular case the land is prime agricultural land on which a variety of crops are grown every year - cereal, sweetcorn, carrots etc. We need food as well as housing and this land is contributing to our food security.
It also provides space for local residents to walk - an invaluable resource during the current pandemic. The land is also a necessary refuge, outside Aldridge's village, for local wildlife.
If this greenbelt is built on the land will be lost for ever.
Once it's gone - it's gone.