Comment

Representation ID: 22632

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: National Highways

Infrastructure Delivery
It is noted within the draft BLP it states that parts of the Black Country’s existing highway
infrastructure, and the motorway network, suffer from congestion, and that detailed
transport modelling work is ongoing, and this evidence will be available to inform the
documents publication.
National Highways disagrees with this approach as the transport evidence base and
transport modelling work should have been provided alongside this document as part of
the consultation. This would enable a robust assessment of the proposals to be identified
to ensure that the proposed levels of growth can be accommodated on the SRN and LRN.
As well as identifying what the transport infrastructure needs, and requirements are to
enable the proposed levels of growth to be sustainably accommodated and delivered.

At present we conclude that without the transport evidence base to support infrastructure
requirements and their delivery that the Local Plan in its current form is unsound.