Object

Representation ID: 18574

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Dudley Labour Group

Agent: Councillor Qadar Zada

Infrastructure


The Labour group is concerned that there has been no proper (or any) consideration of the impact of these proposals on the local infrastructure, i.e. roads, highways, health care, education, transport, which are already under significant strain in an already over developed borough.


Residents and councillors have been told verbally at public meetings that infrastructure modelling was ‘too expensive and too difficult to do at this moment in time’. This is clearly not true. Officers have received funding and had several years to work on these proposals and are still hiding behind the excuse of ‘too expensive and too complicated’.


There is also the question of the extent to which developers will fund additional infrastructure and in any event the obligations on them fall short of the impact that their developments are likely to place on local communities. For example, they are unlikely to agree to fund expensive transport improvements such as new roads near proposed developments and are not obliged to fund new health facilities. This will lead to a position, where local residents will end up paying for the profits made from these developments.


Until and unless these issues are resolved, then all proposals should be placed on hold.