Object

Representation ID: 17868

Received: 22/09/2021

Respondent: Mrs Penelope Allen

With regards to the future plans to build 500 plus houses on a field plot next to Calderfields Golf Club,
backing onto the Arboretem. I wish you to know I strongly object to this proposal. Firstly, this is a
greenbelt part of the area and the existing properties are of an older nature construction with character
and occupied with many professional people who choose to live in this area because of its beauty and
quiet surroundings. With a building of this nature these existing houses will be greatly devalued in price
due to the disturbance of traffic grossly multiplied along with pollution and noise. I walk in The
Arboretum every day of the week and walk past this site which now has sheep and cows and it is like
being in the country, so peaceful and good for the sole, that is why people go to walk in this area to get
away from houses and noise! This will be absolutely ruined. If the plan is to build affordable properties
then this will mean families with children, 2 cars per family, youths and noise. Maybe people from the
estate trying to climb over the fence at night and doing damage in the Arboretum., the pride of Walsall.
The consequences of such a build is unthinkable!
Also, please think about the extra traffic flow at the already blocked Mellish island in rush hour and the
extra traffic disturbing the residents of Buchanan Rd, already busy with Arboretum visitors and parked
cars. Another factor is that there is only one primary school in the area in the Butts, which is already
overflowing so would there also be plans to build a new school somewhere if so, where? We have one
doctor's surgery in the area in Lichfield St which I have been a patient for 15 years and still cannot get an
appointment and their books are full already and cannot take any more patients so where would all
these new residents go? Are you planning a new surgery for them?

This plan has to be the most abominable, untenable, ridiculous one yet by Walsall Council, which would
bring a much loved area to being just another housing estate with all the problems that such an
unwanted plan would bring to a very sort after area of this declining town.