Comment

Representation ID: 43807

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Burrowes Street Tenant Management Organisation

I shall restrict myself to comments on the Draft Plan as I would not wish to prejudice my position by way of a conflict of interest at some later stage

I've looked at the proposals as they might affect this ward. and the stand-out ones appear to me to be:

Coronation Road/Mob Lane, High Heath: I understand that you would have received numerous objections both from residents councillors, Combined Authority members and perhaps the MP also, so I will leave you to review the proposal in the light of what all these people have to say, and will comment in detail when the second-round consultation and the Examination in Public come round.

Grange Crescent, Shelfield: there has been a strong response led by a resident who has raised awareness, and I have hand-delivered some 30-plus consultation forms this afternoon

Barns Farm, Rushall; Barns Lane and surrounding streets have a long-standing issue with HGV traffic and with speeds of all traffic, with a regular incidence of accidents, so the idea of even a smallish patch of housing on green space given the existing issues on the local road network I do find worrying. Again, I would come to a view, and express it, at a later stage in
the process, should any proposal come forward but I think the existing issues do need flagging up now.

Green Lane, Shelfield: I have no detail on this, but assume it's a smaller site, but would be concerned that even a modest development would simply add to the nibbling away at green spaces that has been prevalent throughout so much of Walsall over the years, irrespective of the Draft Plan - for example at the nearby new development on the A461 opposite Woodbridge
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