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Representation ID: 18378

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Burrowes Street Tenant Management Organisation

Agent: Burrowes Street Tenant Management Organisation

I'm Secretary of Burrowes Street Tenant Management Organisation and my Co-Signatory, Madeline Moorcroft is Chair of the same. Our objections are as follows:
We and fellow tenants and residents live in a densely-populated, deprived, inner area just north of the town centre and immediately off the busy, congested, polluting ring road; our estate comprises nearly 300 high- and low-rise flats, and we are surrounded by likewise tightknit terraced nineteenth-century streets, and we are dismayed to learn that the green space we do enjoy and need could be under threat from housing development under the Black Country Plan proposals.
Of particular concern is the prospect of losing the Sydenham Playing fields immediately north of the estate (bounded by Birch Street, Green Lane and Old Birchills), and - extraordinarily we are advised that even Reedwood Park could be a target for housing development.
We already have plenty of new housing (eg. the Caparo site now well under way, and 130 flats to be crammed on the small Green Lane Police Station site), and we would find even more housing being built on our precious green space, including the green corridor which is the Walsall Canal, quite unacceptable,
And, when it comes to land near the M6 (which is pretty loud even from Reedswood Park), for example on the former tip at Pouk Hill, these green space have to stay as a 'green lung' to absorb noise and air pollution - not to mention the potential risk of landfill gas - and where there are proposals for redevelopment for housing so close to the motorway, these should be rejected out of hand.