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Representation ID: 45843

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Pam Woodhall

(1)WAH234GB1 Land between Queslett road, Doe Bank Lane and Aldridge Road, Pheasey Strategy allocation Policy WSA8; (2) Thank you for your Black Country Plan, which has been delivered to my door. I had heard on the grapevine a few years ago, of the propsed building of residential houses on the farmers fields on the area (stated above) and thankfully had thought that these had gone by the by. How disappointing to see that these plans are still being considered after all the valid arguments that had been put forward. So many arguments outlining how this build would be detrimental to the surrounding estates, services and highways as well the wildlife that inhabit these fields.Services and schools and roads are already oversubscribed and overstreched in the surrounding areas. Other than just the obvious money making side of this plan from the builders prospective, is this plan just not the easy, lazy way around the issue of housing, surely we should be looking at urban regeneration, rather than building on what little green spaces we have left. Would any of these houses really be affordable for local residents, local young adults trying to get on the housing ladder, or is it just an opportunity for a money spinner for a few anyway?
Once you start to build it'll give a green light for others to follow, greenbelt area or not, they'll find a loophole and will build whatever they want, wherever, maybe not here but on other areas, maybe somewhere near you. If the last two years of the pandemic has shown us anything, it should be the value of green open places for us all. Once they are gone, they are gone.The Beacon Road struggles twice daily with school traffic during term time already, roads around Pheasey and Meadowview schools suffer similarly. The Queslett Road, all round the Pheasey and onto Streetly are heavy with commuter traffice too. A plan for an Aldi store build was rejected a year or two ago due to the amount of traffic it would produce at the Queslett Island, yet I'm sure entrance to the store would have had a separate roadway, similary to the adjacent Asda, yet the councils deemed the traffic would be too heavy on the Queslett Road when approaching. This planned build would interact with the same Queslett Road.Local schools are full and similar medical services are difficult to make an appopintment with.