Transport and Access to Residential Services

Comment

Representation ID: 10586

Received: 19/08/2021

Respondent: Mr Ian Satterthwaite

Public transport is key,
Buses should be unified under a single county council controlling or owning, Birmingham is lacking a bus station or bus - railway interchange,
Railways closed previously should be reopened in the area to combat the horrendous road traffic, viz, Stourbridge - Dudley, Dudley - Walsall, & Stourbridge - Wolverhampton (via Wombourne) for local and through passenger and goods services,

Object

Representation ID: 11434

Received: 02/10/2021

Respondent: Mr Andrew Roberts

Highways cannot possible think the schemes in Kingswinford / Wall Heath are viable sites. These developments could generate thousands more vehicles on what is already a poor highways network. The roads simply cant cope with this new volume of traffic.

Comment

Representation ID: 11441

Received: 03/10/2021

Respondent: Mike Ingall

Underhill Lane is already used as a rat run and is busy continually. Building new housing at either end of it will just increase this volume of traffic, increasing the potential for more accidents and deaths.

Comment

Representation ID: 11540

Received: 05/10/2021

Respondent: Hawbush Community Gardens

Pleased to see the transport modelling work ongoing, which is important as I feel that recent housing developments have not taken adequate account of road and transport requirements. This is clear based on the severe traffic congestion on roads around the borough, where recent housing projects have been completed without any apparent improvements in roads, either before or after project completion.

Object

Representation ID: 11809

Received: 09/10/2021

Respondent: Ms Carol Brown

Stourbridge is already overwhelmed with traffic and the local services such as
GPS , schools, hospitals are unable to cope
We are overpopulated and the various new houses and apartments in the town
Have had further impact

Object

Representation ID: 11934

Received: 10/10/2021

Respondent: Ms Linsey Rush

As we reside in the brown hills area of the A5 I’m very concerned that the use of the green belt area to develop employment will increase the traffic volume. At times the A5 cannot cope with the traffic volume it has now with tailbacks every peak time, every day sometimes it can take me 10/15mins to even get off our drive.

Object

Representation ID: 11974

Received: 10/10/2021

Respondent: Mrs Nicole Alpers

Schools are already at capacity in Streetly and the surrounding areas. There is simply not space to build the education infrastructure required to support such a large scale housing development.

The local GP practices are already on their knees.

The transport infrastructure does not support this level of housing development. Junction 7 is a stone's throw away and this would only exacerbate current issues with traffic flow at this junction. The area is already gridlocked at peak times.

Comment

Representation ID: 12018

Received: 10/10/2021

Respondent: Miss Emma Thompson

Public open space is not necessarily the same as high-quality natural greenspace and therefore the latter should be added to the list of infrastructure investment that will be required to support development. The value of accessible, high-quality natural greenspace to local communities is increasingly understood. For example, the Dasgupta Review 2021 states that access to green spaces can reduce socio-economic inequalities in health, and cites a longitudinal study covering over 10,000 UK residents that found that living in greener urban space was associated with greater life satisfaction (White et al. 2013)

Object

Representation ID: 18458

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: L&Q Estates

Agent: Pegasus Group

Paragraph 4.3 - "Strategic Allocations identified as Neighbourhood Growth Areas are located immediately adjacent to the urban edge of the conurbation and therefore benefit from proximity to many of the services and facilities that the existing residential areas already have access to." Also goes on to state that these sites are not necessarily unsustainable from a transportation perspective.

Comment

Representation ID: 19212

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country

Transport and Access to Residential Services
4.11
Comment: Public open space is not necessarily the same as high-quality natural greenspace and therefore the latter should be added to the list of infrastructure investment that will be required to support development. The value of accessible, high-quality natural greenspace to local communities is increasingly understood. For example, the Dasgupta Review 2021 states that access to green spaces can reduce socio-economic inequalities in health, and cites a longitudinal study covering over 10,000 UK residents that found that living in greener urban space was associated with greater life satisfaction (White et al. 2013).

Comment

Representation ID: 23190

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Historic England

Paragraph 4.11 we would be supportive of heritage being included within this list and seeking opportunities to better reveal the significance of heritage assets and enhancement opportunities/addressing heritage at risk.

Comment

Representation ID: 23237

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Member of Parliament

Transport Infrastructure and the enhancement of sustainable and active travel are to be applauded and should be central to any development plan, but it is unclear from within the proposed plan how this will be underpinned by the current document.
A number of the proposed sites across Aldridge-Brown hills currently suffer from severe daily congestion, including Aldridge Road/Queslett Road East, Wolverhampton Road, Pelsall Road/Clayhanger junction and Stonnall Road.
Large parts of the road network cannot cope with the existing number of properties/vehicles, in the case of the proposed Aldridge Road/Queslett Road site the imposition of 960 properties most of which would turn right towards Birmingham would lead to even further increased gridlock in both directions given at the same time more than 1,900 school children are currently seeking to access the existing road network.
Whilst constituents would welcome steps towards more sustainable levels of transportation, it is highly questionable as to whether we can justify attempting to take these vital necessary steps when there is a lack of detailed transport modelling to accompany the proposed plan.
Further, Paragraph 4.9 supports the fact that this has not happened and only remains 'on-going'. Improved sustainable travel will not account for the loss of the natural environment with large swathes of Green Belt being lost for a future generation.