Comment

Representation ID: 22557

Received: 06/10/2021

Respondent: DNA Investment Holdings Ltd

Agent: Lavata Group Ltd

Policy CS1 – Development Strategy

We are in support of the DBCP’s position on the development strategy for the Black Country as overall
strategy focuses on residential development to the most accessible, sustainable locations including the defined Strategic Centre of Walsall. DNA Investment Holdings Ltd proposals to develop their Site fits in perfectly with the strategy to deliver housing in existing urban areas, with this development also regenerating an area of Walsall Town Centre which is currently underutilised and will offer new residential dwellings in an area of acute housing need. This Site will have its own challenges due to the proximity to the Grade II* Listed St Matthew’s Church and the Church Hill Conservation Area. Criterion (f) of Policy CS1 the strategy seeks to protect the ”… Black Country’s character and environmental assets including heritage assets…”, which would be applicable to the our interests, however as an overarching strategic element of the development strategy this as a principle is acceptable.
Further comments on housing, strategic centres and heritage are set out in the relevant sections of the Consultation Document.