Object

Representation ID: 23405

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: West Midlands CPRE

Agent: Gerald Kells

DUH 208 Dudley Kingswinford
This site is agricultural land beyond the north of the east- wards expansion of Wall Heath. The area immediately to the north is designated not only as Green Belt but as high historic landscape value. Development of this area of land would affect the setting of the Grade II listed Holbeche House (clearly an issue in relation to Policy ENV5). This property is an important historic site as the house where some of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot conspirators were arrested. While there is a bus service, the site would generate significant extra traffic on the A449 which would be used as its main access. The A449 was formerly a trunk road and continues to be a Primary Route (green signs), the main road between Worcester and Wolverhampton. It would be harmful to the purpose of the A449 as a Primary Route to develop new housing adjacent to it, slowing down existing traffic, especially at peak hours, and causing road safety risks.
Green Belt assessment in Land Use Consultants’ 2019 Green Belt Study - Moderate-High