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Representation ID: 20029

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Miss Helen Loxton

Holbeache Greenbelt BCP Site Ref DUH 208 page 371 DSA1 pages 419-423
The Dudley Council say they are wanting to build on 6% of Greenbelt for affordable housing. When they have plenty of brown site land that is being ignored. for example sites of land along Duncan Edwards Way. The area near roundabout at Black Acre Road has been under dispute for years. Why not concentrate on improving ugly unused areas where crime is high to build housing. There are schools , good roads and near motorways.
The area they are planning to build on around Wall Heath and Kingswinford does not have the road system in place to support his amount of housing. They are proposing 863 new houses within an area of aprox 2 square miles. With two to three people in each house that is between 1726-2589 people with the average use of two cars per household that is another 1726 more cars. The road systems get busy now they would not be able to cope.
The government talk about global warming, floods, increase of pollution. Then take easy way out and move into greenbelt instead of using brown sites.
1, Greenbelt is natures way of flood defences. Rain soaks away.
2, Greenbelt is good for mental health - brown sites unused ugly run down areas are the opposite.
3, Historical area Holbeach house for the Gun Powder plot, Roman ruins, the unused railway line.
4, nature, deer, buzzards, Kites, rare birds, wild flowers.
Dudley Council you are taking the easy way out. Why not concentrate on improving the areas near the town centre. Where there are already shops, schools and roads.
Dudley Council and all the councils you are the ones destroying our countryside, responsible for increased pollution and flooding. The world needs Green spaces to help fight global warming not ugly unused brown sites.