Object

Representation ID: 17831

Received: 27/09/2021

Respondent: Martin Wickson

Site REf: 10131/SA-0022-WAL
Home Farm Sandhills Walsall Wood WS9 9DJ

, I object in the strongest terms.

Not only on the grounds that idilic outlook/view will be totally abliterated and the peace and quiet we enjoy from our house's location will be lost, but also:
1) The current road infrastruture Chester Road A452/Lichfield Road A461 can not cope with the current traffic usage, at peak times we struggle to exit Shire Lea onto Chester Road A452 due to queuing traffic in both directions.
2) Shire Oak School is nearby, this alone causes additional traffic, there was a fatal accident near the junction of Chester Road and Lindon Road, with the death of a student.
There has also been 2 serious accidents on the A461 recently
An additional 800 houses is only going to make a bad situation worse!
3) The farmland, the proposed development will affect is a haven for wildlife, with deer regularily spotted along the treeline adjacent to the canal, we have sparrowhawks, buzzards, foxes, bats and woodpeckers spotted on a daily basis on said land, what will happen to their habitat?
Is this really the way we want go, killing what little countryside habitat we have?
4) I thought as a nation we were proposing to grow more seasional crops to make Britian more self surfficent, this proposal is in no way going to benefit that cause.

We brought our property some [x] years ago, because of its location and situation and obviously we paid a premium for this, the proposed development will significantly affect our quality of life, as well as the devaluation our property, whilst I appreciate as a nation we need additional housing, I feel there are far more sensible options, for example where rundown areas would benefit from redevelopment investment or the numerous delapidated industrial sites across the West Midlands could be utilised.