Object

Representation ID: 18443

Received: 23/09/2021

Respondent: Mrs Jennifer Gnosill

I am writing to object to plan WAH236 for development on greenbelt land in Pelsall.
1) These plans raise many more questions than answers why is green belt land being used when you only have to drive around the area to see plenty of brownfield land that could be used?
Exactly how many of the proposed 580 homes are affordable or is this area being used so that the developers can build more luxury homes that make them more profit but do nothing to address the housing shortage?

2) Everyone who lives in Pelsall knows that there are only 2 single handed GP's and a part-time GP based in Rushall. Appointments are already stretched so exactly where are these new residents going to access medical services. The local dentist already has a waiting list and the local schools are full to capacity. So how is this new development going to be sustainable. The Manor Hospital was already at breaking point before the pandemic.

3) The road infrastructure is already stretched with long queues from all directions to the finger post traffic lights in the morning and evening rush hour. Adding more traffic is completely unsustainable and the area will be grid locked. Add to this larger vehicles coming down from the A5 when the bridge development is complete - is the proposed development the REAL reason the bridge is being moved and widened?
Your document states that there are adequate public transport routes in the area - I suggest you come and try to cross the Lichfield Rd in a morning to the bus stops.

4) This country hosting the climate change forum in 2021 is a complete joke. How is destroying the countryside and bull dozing mature trees helping to save the planet? Wildlife in the area will be decimated and the risk of flooding that already happens in Lime Lane will be increased. That comes next - building on common land? As the bridge development has shown this can be done as long as there is a land swap for a strip of useless land that cannot be used for anything else.

5) This plan is ill conceived and a complete betrayal by our local authority endorsed by Westminster where the Prime Minister and his cronies dont have a clue about what happens in the [real?] world and affects the general population.

will we be able to find "Englands green and pleasant land" in a few years time. I very much doubt it in Walsall!!