Object

Representation ID: 19247

Received: 07/10/2021

Respondent: Mr William Snowden

Re sites WAH237.
1. Any incursion into or reducing the green belt should be avoided while brown field and former industrial sites remain unused. Green space should remain untouched to combat the climate crisis and urban sprawl.
2. WAH 237 is productive arable land. British food self sufficiency has fallen from 78% in the mid-1980s to 60% now. Nationally and locally we should not be destroying this valuable local asset and adding to the issue of food miles.
3. The developments will increase demand on existing services in Aldridge. Medical services and schools are already operating under pressure of numbers. Local shopping and parking facilities such as the shops at Lazy Hill Road / Walsall Wood Road are extremely limited.
4. The proposed extension of gravel and mineral prior to the land being developed for housing would cause noise and disruption to local residents and turn a residential area into an industrial one.
5. The transport of sand and gravel would mean a high volume of heavy vehicles on Lazy Hill and Stonal Roads, both roads are inappropriate for this. Until recently lorries going to and from the landfill site on Chester Road used both Lazy Hill and Stonal Road causing constant erosion of the surface and a safety hazard so that the local authority had to impose a weight limit which is still in force.
6. Both roads have a high proportion of traffic and are used as rat runs in particular Stonal Road would see a massive increase in traffic.