Introduction

Comment

Representation ID: 10566

Received: 17/08/2021

Respondent: Penn Climate Action

2041 is too far away. Significant change needs to occur much sooner.

Comment

Representation ID: 10809

Received: 12/09/2021

Respondent: Mrs Debbie Digger

We need to retain the urban environment/green space for the wildlife and the residents to enjoy reducing the carbon footprint at the same time

Comment

Representation ID: 11117

Received: 23/09/2021

Respondent: Mrs Diane Locke

We need more green space not less. We have lost so much already and with climate change you are taking down trees at an alarming rate.

Comment

Representation ID: 11165

Received: 24/09/2021

Respondent: Mr Richard Carter

One factor that is apparently overlooked when multiple strategies for improvement are put in place is the direct correlation that exists between them. For example, if the main headings of this document are examined, i.e. poverty, being green and transport, the following can be identified:
An available, efficient, easy to use and cost effective transport network is required to support employment, our industry, our economy and our society.
Ongoing green development of our transport network will require industry to provide innovative solutions which will support employment the economy.
Transport development and innovation hubs will create employment opportunities which will help to reduce levels of poverty.

Comment

Representation ID: 11178

Received: 24/09/2021

Respondent: Mr Jack Richards

The BCP should adopt a Carbon Maturity Index. The Carbon Maturity Model classifies local authorities into one of five core stages - from Climate Aware up to Climate Influencer - depending on their response to the climate emergency.

Comment

Representation ID: 11634

Received: 03/10/2021

Respondent: Ann Killian

To take away these recreational green areas is taking away much needed green areas. In a climate where we should be making more green areas, planting more trees and thinking of the climate as the government suggest, it makes little sense to destroy the small green areas we have left.

Comment

Representation ID: 11638

Received: 04/10/2021

Respondent: M Joesbury

Pollution from the motorway would be too much if trees taken away.

Comment

Representation ID: 12148

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Walsall MBC

The section on Climate change should be at the front of the document as it is of primary importance to all our futures. It should not be buried as an after thought deep into the Environment section

Comment

Representation ID: 16408

Received: 04/10/2021

Respondent: Gwen Bridgewater

Thousands of new homes are already being built, or have been. None of them have solar panels or efficient technologies in place. To save energy and our planet shouldn't this have been standard practice?

Thousands of driveways go unchecked removing permeable gardens & landscaping, this can increase run off therefore possible flooding.

Object

Representation ID: 16726

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Mrs Denise Green

- Removing growing land will reduce the absorption of CO2 for global warming and new build will increase CO2. How does this fit in with the "Black Country Green Policy"?

Comment

Representation ID: 17460

Received: 08/10/2021

Respondent: Mr Peter Orme

These proposals have in my opinion been developed with a mindset that was relevant to the 1960’s when the car was seen as all powerful.

In our current position with a climate that is running out of control we need to develop a more integrated plane where all communities and therefor new developments reflect the needs of the population.

Comment

Representation ID: 17628

Received: 07/10/2021

Respondent: Mrs Julie Leavesley

Number of people: 2

1. The plan directly opposes the government initiative to tackle climate change. To build 960 houses [WSA8 - Land between Queslett Road, Doe Bank Lane and Aldridge Road, Pheasey] would increase pollution, from extra cars and heating demands
2. Impact on landscape and ecological habitats. As we live in a city this is our chance to see all the wild life on our door step within walking distance. All animals and insects would be gone unless we drove somewhere again increasing our carbon footprint.

Object

Representation ID: 18576

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Dudley Labour Group

Agent: Councillor Qadar Zada

Finally, it is uncertain how the borough will meet its target for zero carbon emissions by 2050 and zero waste to landfill by 2030 with so many additional households. There is also the issue of how the loss of the natural absorption provided by green belt and green spaces may contribute to or create new flooding risks.

Comment

Representation ID: 19048

Received: 25/09/2021

Respondent: Mr Richard Carter

In addition to fostering the regeneration a broad range of traditional industries, the West Midlands can support industrial, new business growth and society in general by establishing CENTRIC - Centre(s) for Enterprise, Training, Innovation and Collaboration - in partnership with local universities, colleges and other businesses. Partnership with universities and colleges will
play an important part in the overall process and will ensure compatibility with the outcome of the government's "Skills for Jobs: Lifelong Learning for Opportunity and Growth" White Paper.
As its name implies, CENTRIC will be the focal point for establishing a sustainable and environmentally focused society, i.e. it will provide research and training opportunities covering such things as:
• Energy efficient and architecturally favourable building design (many people have a preference for older buildings because they are more attractive and "quirky").
• Waste management and District Heating methodologies.
• Energy generation.
• Alternative green fuels.
• Harmful emission capture and reprocessing.
• Sewage processing.
• Socially and environmentally friendly vehicle design.
• Transport methodology.
• Business start-up & Entrepreneurship.
• Increasing the efficiency, scalability and cost effectiveness of existing technologies and, above all,
• Fully-factored urban regeneration methodologies.
• Obtaining potable water from the sea. The UK is surrounded by sea yet we obtain our
water environmentally unfriendly sources such as rivers and reservoirs. Consider: where do
Malta and Goza obtain their potable water from?
• Enhancement to the fresh water production process that would remove the impurities which lead to pipe and appliance furring.
• Water reprocessing, e.g. separating water into oxygen and hydrogen. It is worth noting that recent advances have made the process far more energy efficient. There is a growing need for hydrogen to replace fossil fuels.
• CO2 capture and reprocessing, e.g. Calcium Carbonate precipitation for CO2 storage and utilization, separating CO2 into carbon and hydrogen. These techniques would replace the current "capture, store and dump" approach and help to alleviate or reduce the need to produce CO2 for the food industry.
• Alternative packaging. Consider: how did the Victorian's package and store their food and other consumables?
• Waste water/ sewage processing: https://www.clarke-energy.com/applications/sewage• gas/. Directly linked, improved CO2 capture and reprocessing techniques would benefit this process.
• As previously mentioned, advancement of hydrogen based steel production.

Object

Representation ID: 23205

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Francesca Jarvis-Rouse

The UK government has announced a Climate emergency which does not seemed to have considered enough within your plans.

Support

Representation ID: 23273

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Historic England

We are supportive of a section on climate change and we recognise the important role this issue has to play. We also recognise that there are likely to be benefits for the historic environment as a result of addressing climate change and we welcome this. We are keen to ensure that the historic environment is fully considered in plans for climate change mitigation and adaptation to ensure appropriate and sensitive measures are undertaken.

Comment

Representation ID: 45902

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Transport for West Midlands

Whilst we don’t disagree with any of the current policies presented in this chapter, we consider that this policy together with several others including (Transport etc.) need to be much stronger in terms of being clear on the role spatial planning and its relationship with transport demand and travel behaviours plays in achieving net zero and the decarbonization of the transport system, through reducing the wider impacts of travel, including the energy demands of transport.

However, this Climate Change chapter is very much about mitigation and adaptation, as opposed to preventative action, and to fully achieve net zero by 2041 across our region, we must do this at scale and pace.

The WMCA is fully committed to its own WM2041 carbon ambition which means using cars less together with a mix of the following to take place:
• Reductions in the frequency of travel – consolidation of trips or replacement of travel with use of information and communication technologies;
• Changes to where people travel to/from – making shorter journeys and/or to places that are more
easily accessed and served by more sustainable modes of travel; and
• Changing the vehicles used to travel – modal shift to more sustainable modes such as public transport and walking and cycling and switching to personal vehicles that require less energy to use such as smaller cars, personal light vehicles, and micromobility.

Based on the above, under Policy CC1 (1b) it is important that all development, be designed to support rapid decarbonization of transport, and where it may generate additional trips, it should demonstrate that their impact overall, does not result in additional carbon emissions. When the transport modelling work is complete and shared with TfWM, a greater understanding of the true impact of the plan proposals as well as the extent of net carbon increases from transport will hopefully be demonstrated.