Comment

Representation ID: 22442

Received: 30/09/2021

Respondent: Mr Robert Raybone

Black Country Site Assessment Report/Dudley Appendix A, Page 79. The Triangle SA-0025-DUD
It is better to use brown field sites and re-develop many empty houses and local sites around this area.
Development on green field sites destroys countryside visually and important wildlife areas, once it`s gone it is gone forever.
Increased numbers of vehicles means more air pollution, more road congestion in an area which is gridlocked for hours each day in and around Wordsley and surrounding villages and towns.
Services in Dudley are already at breaking point and far from adequate, now proposals to build 500 plus houses will make these services unsustainable.
There is no mention of new hospital/doctor surgeries/schools/road improvements/shops/employment opportunities.
These housing proposals do not meet affordable housing targets.
Inappropriate development is by definition, harmful to the green belt and should not be approved.
Smaller developments should be considered to reduce the impact around this area.
The reason for choosing to live where we do was based on living on very edge of countryside, if these proposals were to be implemented we will end up living in the middle of a concrete jungle with raised road noise and congestion, in other words being hemmed in by traffic, if wanted that I would have chosen to live in a town or city.
If the proposed A449 Kidderminster Road forms the amended Green Belt boundary then all the Greenfield sites encompassed by that on the boundary and currently vulnerable from the South Staffs Local plan would be at risk from development as a precedent would be set for a new boundary.
There are also at least two other major development sites at Stallings Lane and Ketley Quarry (within 2 miles) whih do not have any infastructure improvements either.