Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 18001
Received: 11/10/2021
Respondent: Ms Mary Dudley
New homes - Dudley borough
- Green belt release to accommodate new housing
- Kingswinford Neighbour growth area
The current road infrastructure is insufficient to support the volume of traffic to use them. The main roads from Kingswinford into the Black Country are gridlocked in the mornings and evenings. Travelling from Kingswinford to Russells Hall hospital, a distance of two miles can take 20-40 minutes at peak times. An additional 863 homes would add a great deal of additional traffic causing total gridlock. In addition the pollution levels resulting from idling engines adds considerably to climate change problems. An key route taking traffic from the proposed n'hood growth area towards Stourbridge would take traffic along the High Street at Wordsleywhich is already on eof the most polluted in Borough.
Healthcare services, in particular GP's and dentists already have long waiting lists in the Kingswinford area, additional homes would only compound the problems.