Object

Representation ID: 22329

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Mr Chris Barnett

Number of people: 274

Protect Dudley's Green Belt and Green Spaces from the Black Country Plan Developers.

Cllr Chris Barnett started this petition to Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council.

Green spaces and the green belt in Dudley Borough are under threat. The Black Country Plan has identified development opportunities on hundreds of green spaces across the borough. Green belt and green spaces in your area, near your street. Places that you love and care about.
Developers want these spaces to build houses. Not the houses we actually need. Not genuinely affordable housing. Not housing at affordable rent with a secure tenancy. They want to build houses that make them a profit and nothing else. We think the residents of Dudley Borough deserve better. Let's tell Dudley Council and the Combined Authority what we think of their plan.
There are plenty of opportunities for housing development in Dudley without using green spaces: Redundant industrial brownfield sites. Existing development sites, sitting idle because greedy developers are land banking them. Houses are sitting empty because they need improvement and refurbishment to make them habitable. We the undersigned wish to object to proposals in the Black Country Plan to sell parts of our green belt and green spaces to enable homes to be built. Development on these sites threaten to undermine wildlife and the general health and well-being of a population emerging from the pandemic that now places even greater value on them. Should this petition attract 3000 signatures, we would like the matter to be debated at a future meeting of the Full Council