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Representation ID: 19713

Received: 04/10/2021

Respondent: Mr George Kenneth Houghton

"The Triangle" BCP Site Ref DUH 211 page 371 DSA 2 Pages 424-428
The development will close a "right of way" from the A449 allowing children to exit onto Lodge Lane and allows children a safer place to cross the road to Summer Hill school away from the A449 / Lodge Lane junction which is a very busy junction and children do not always see the dangers at this junction. A449/Lodge lane.
There are not enough school places at Summer hill and Kingswinford schools places - Sept 2021 - Building extra classrooms would take precious space from the playing fields.

There are not enough doctors surgeries, emergency systems are struggling at present, Moss Grove surgery are sending patients to Kinver Surgeries. The turnaround for ambulances for patients is 1 hour and for emergency treatment pre lock down is 4 hours, adding an extra 1279 people to the area plus Holbeache development would make waiting times even longer. The A449 is a busy Road in lockdown the road was experiencing as of 28/8/21 from (16.30-18.00hrs) 4982 cars and 100 lorries. The road through K/Ford and down through Moss Grove and up towards Stourbridge is grid locked at the above times and at others long tail backs. Another 553 at the Triangle and 330 at Holbeache plus Stalling Lane and Ketley Quarry developments will only add to the volume of traffic in K/Ford and compound the problem. Extra traffic brings more pollution and CO2 more noise from the site and lorries in and out of the site creating problems for neighbours and residents over a long period of time. Brownfield sites should be built on first before Green Belt land. The houses to be built are expensive homes and not help younger people on the property ladder. The Green Belt should be a buffer to stop urban sprawl. Wild life will suffer and the green belt helps biodiversity and gives residents in K/ford metal well being and pride in our area. The soil in the Triangle is grade 3 and should be left for farming and not building houses on. Build houses on Brownfield sites first and help our town to thrive again. " Hanson" states that this area as having the worst commuting score from home to work. There is a lot of opposition from the local community that these houses no not meet affordable housing targets. Some of the hedges and trees with preservation orders on them. Ridge Hill would will be hugely impacted and with disrupted wild life corridors and surrounding habitats which would be irreversible. It is no doubt that once permission is given then the Triangle will be lost forever and a part of countryside around Kingswinford would be lost.