Comment

Representation ID: 18067

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Brierley Hill Community Forum

Little progress has been made towards uniting the three parts of Brierley Hill as envisage in the previous Black Country Plan. Merry Hill and Brierley Hill High Street continue to provide differing retail offers. The plan needs enough granularity to ensure that, as the journey toward uniting the three parts of Brierley Hill takes place, the High Street's needs are considered separately from Merry Hill (for example in car parking allocations and travel plans).
The introduction of a tighter active frontage policy to encourage shops to open on to their High Streets as opposed to car parks at their rear would also be welcomed (eg Pound Stretcher in Brierley Hill, various gyms etc).