Object

Representation ID: 18216

Received: 14/10/2021

Respondent: Mr Stephen Pugh

I completely object to any development on Brandhall Green Space, formerly Brandhall Golf Club.

Climate change and pollution get a lot of air time by all political parties yet its the poor man to the constant demand for new housing and ongoing development.

The choice of Brandhall Golf Course, now Brandhall Green Community space for a large housing development is thunderously wrong on so many levels:

1. Brandhall/Oldbury within Sandwell suffers with the least green space of the borough according to Sandwell's own Green Space Strategy Published in 2019 and Sandwell has the lowest level of green space out of all Black Country Boroughs

2. The site borders a heavily congested area, with the Wolverhampton Road proving a very busy artery and accident blackspot already

3. The site, near to busy roads and motorways provides a vital buffer to absorb traffic pollution. Placing housing and / or schools alongside this pollution will be bad for new and existing residents health and be a further indication of the shortsightedness of finding easy housing solutions over the health and wellbeing of residents of Sandwell

4. The area offers a flooding buffer for outlying houses which will be lost or severly reduced with development

5. The green space offers a once in a lifetime chance to develop a sustainable and inclusive leisure facility offering facilities to improve the health and wellbeing of residents across the brough.

6. This green space is the home to countless wild animals and plant life which the community value

We value our green space and Sandwell MBC should too.

Support our green space. Develop our brown.

Thank you.