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Representation ID: 18360

Received: 05/10/2021

Respondent: Mr Nigel Roden

Hi - the Black Country Plan is a great idea and naturally this document needs a lot of reading to fully understand.
Unfortunately I have only just heard about the draft plan with less than a week before the 11th October deadline. Consequently I have had to focus on the key issues that effect my neighbourhood in Walsall which are as follows:

Additional housing:
1) WAH231 - I have lived on [x] for over [x] years and can't believe how incredibly busy traffic now is. Building many new additional houses here will not only be adding to the problem but is building on very important greenbelt land*

Question: why is Walsall building more net homes than the other 3 larger regions? This doesn't seem fair - please advise.
* there are sufficient brownfield and town centre sites available within Walsall that should be used instead of precious Greenfield areas.