Development Allocations

Object

Representation ID: 44782

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country

WOH269 Oxley Park Golf Club land adjacent to 21 Oxley Links Road and WOH270 Oxley Park Golf Club land adjacent to 10 Oxley Links Road

WTBBC have concluded that the Site Assessment process should not have selected site:
• The site is a Site of Local Importance for Nature Conservation (SLINC). The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) states that Local Plans should safeguard components of local wildlife-rich habitats and wider ecological networks, including locally designated sites of importance for biodiversity. WTBBC therefore object to the allocation on this basis.

Comment

Representation ID: 44785

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country

WOH271 -Land East of Wood Hayes Road, Wolverhampton

WTBBC have concluded that the Site Assessment process should not have selected site:
• Site has been identified as Potential Site of Importance (for nature conservation).
• A Local (wildlife) Site Assessment is required to provide evidence to inform the BCP Site Assessment process. This has not been undertaken and therefore WTBBC object to the allocation on this basis.

Object

Representation ID: 44786

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country

WOH273 - Moseley Road Open Space (part), Langdale Drive, Bilston

WTBBC have concluded that the Site Assessment process should not have selected site:
• Site identified as Potential Site of Importance (for nature conservation).
• A Local (wildlife) Site Assessment is required to provide evidence to inform the BCP Site Assessment process. This has not been undertaken and therefore WTBBC object to the allocation on this basis.
• WTBBC understand the allocation is an area of public open space. It is WTBBC’s position that due to the broad range of benefits that these sites provide local communities that no public open space should be allocated for development. On this basis we object.

Object

Representation ID: 44788

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country

WOH274 Former Wolverhampton Environment Centre, Westacre Crescent, Finchfield

WTBBC have concluded that the Site Assessment process should not have selected site:
• Site identified as Potential Site of Importance (for nature conservation).
• A Local (wildlife) Site Assessment is required to provide evidence to inform the BCP Site Assessment process. This has not been undertaken and therefore WTBBC object to the allocation on this basis.
• Adjoins LNR and SINC and therefore high potential for detrimental impact.
• Adjoins Area of High Historic Landscape Value.
• Access to development would require vehicle access across greenway. This conflicts with Policy CSP4 - Achieving well-designed places and Policy ENV8 – Open Space, Sport and Recreation.

Object

Representation ID: 44803

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Consortium of Developers

Number of people: 4

Agent: Turley Associates

Existing Allocations in Wolverhampton
5.28 As with Dudley, the 2,248 homes due to deliver in the Strategic Centre in Wolverhampton (which is the City Centre) are identified in an Area Action Plan, the latest version of which was adopted in 2016. The aim was for 2,043 homes to be delivered by 2026, with 475 of these by 2021.

5.29 In this case, the AAP does not even explicitly identify all the sites it relies on to deliver these homes. The Core Strategy targets for the AAP area include 2,130 commitments and 1,100 unidentified sites in the City Centre, and 560 homes on employment land to the south of the City Centre.

5.30 At the time of AAP adoption (2016) there had been 470 homes completed in the City Centre and there were 163 homes on committed sites, according the latest SHLAA (2020) there are still 163 commitments to be delivered by 2021. The latest Wolverhampton SHLAA (2020) states that there had been 948 completions in the City Centre between 2006 and 2019. Although the documentation is not explicit, it appears that delivery has fallen behind what was expected and relied on.

Object

Representation ID: 44830

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Finchfield Waterside Care (Keep Britain Tidy)

Number of people: 9

WHO 274 WTNA

Finchfield Waterside Care (Keep Britain Tidy) is a group of local volunteers that looks after Finchfield Brook and its environs where it flows through the Smestow Valley Local Nature Reserve (LNR)

We believe it is a serious mistake to include the former Wolverhampton Environment Centre (the WEC) in the Black Country Plan. Residential or commercial development on the WEC will have a deleterious effect on the wildlife and people who use the Local Nature Reserve.

Houses bring traffic. [CC4 - Air Quality page 277]
- Traffic pollutes the air. [HW1 p.74…… BCP aims to ‘create an environment that protects and improves the physical, social and mental health and wellbeing of its residents, employees and visitors and reduces health inequalities’] The proposed houses on the WEC will be
occupied 24/7. At the moment we volunteers leave our cars at [redacted]. We walk to the Brook and enjoy exercise in fresh air.

- Traffic harms wildlife and people. [ENV1 - Nature Conservation, p201……’ development is not permitted where it would harm nationally (Sites of Special Scientific Interest and National Nature Reserves) or regionally (Local Nature Reserves and Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation) designated nature conservation sites’ ] To get to the WECs traffic will enter the Local Nature Reserve, it will cross a greenway.

[Protected Species] inhabit the wetlands around the WEC. Crushed bodies, ‘road kill’, should not be a feature of a nature reserve. [ENV1 d) ‘the movement of wildlife within the Black Country and its adjoining areas, through both linear habitats (e.g. wildlife corridors) and the wider urban matrix (e.g. stepping-stone sites) is not impeded by development’]

Houses and traffic pollute water courses. [CC6 – Sustainable Drainage and Surface Water Management p.288]
- Since October 2018 Waterside Care has reported to the Environment Agency seventeen cases of pollution in the Brook. Most of the causes of pollution are household effluence but one case involved the dumping of engine oil in the water. The Brook flows into the canal and the Smestow Brook and then the Stour. [Protected species] are returning to Staffs-Worcester Canal. The BBC Wildlife Trust is promoting ‘Salmon in the Stour’, a campaign for clean water. Housing on the WEC will not help the aim of Waterside Care to create a healthy stream for the benefit of people and wildlife.

Housing will contribute to flooding. [CC5 – Flood Risk p. 282] Houses, access roads, and hard driveways prevent rain water from seeping into the soil to replenish aquifers. The water will instead be directed into drains which flow into the Finchfield Brook.

- Flood-water from the Brook regularly makes the public footpath to Wightwick Mill Lock impassable after heavy rain. Each month Waterside Care volunteers dredge silt from the Brook to alleviate flooding. Fourteen houses in the catchment area of the Brook will add to the problem of flooding.

- The 0.45 ha site in the WEC allocated in the BCP for 14 houses is developing into a shallow wetland. This wetland will absorb water that would otherwise find its way into the Brook.

- The developing wetland will provide an aqua habitat, of which there are too few in the LNR

- The developing wetland will extend the area suitable for the endangered species, the existing [protected species]

Houses and traffic bring……
- Lights and noise pollution to disturb the foraging and breeding habits of wildlife.
- Domestic cats, deadly for birds and small mammals
- Litter. Waterside Care is justly proud of its success in clearing litter from the Railway Walk, Turner’s Field and Finchfield Brook every month. Each year we prevent several kilos of plastic, foil and cans from entering the canal and the Smestow Brook.

The WEC is in the Green Belt. It is in the Local Nature Reserve. It is a place of peace and tranquillity.
- We, volunteers with Waterside Care, appreciate the benefits that the Smestow Valley Local Nature Reserve has brought to us, especially during the recent pandemic. Houses on the WEC will undermine values underpinning care for the environment, values which are essential to combating climate change.

Creating a stronger, prosperous and sustainable Black Country
Waterside Care spreads the message of ‘Care for the Environment’
- To allow houses to be built on the WEC, in the Green Belt in the middle of the city’s only Local Nature Reserve will send a contrary message that Wolverhampton does not care for the challenge of climate change nor for the natural environment which will help to meet that challenge.

Therefore we, the undersigned volunteers with Waterside Care, strongly oppose the inclusion of any part of the Wolverhampton Environment Centre as a site for potential development in the Black Country Plan.

Comment

Representation ID: 44855

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: City if Wolverhampton Council

Ref St Luke's development:

I write as Local Councillor for the ward of Blakenhall in respect to the development of the former St Luke’s site, at Goldthorn Road. When the development was first considered around five years ago, the Royal school had a population of less than 250 people. Today over 1400 children attend the school. The traffic on Goldthorn Road servicing drop off and pick up of children at the School has gown accordingly. Today Goldthorn Road is almost impassable.

I have proposed that rather than making the former St Luke’s site a housing estate, that it is handed to the Royal school for both parking and an academic study block. The space could also be used for dropping off and picking up children. What’s important is that there are no housing developments fronting this site. Also, I am asking that the playing fields are preserved for both the community and for the school.

It would be possible to put some house on the site, providing their only access was Bromwynd Close and Cyprus street. For this to happen the two streets would need to be connected. Also, the present industrial estate referred to as Derwents, would need to be removed in favour of both housing and access.

Object

Representation ID: 44857

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Mr Steven Vanstone

Objection to Site Allocation WHO 274 WTNA
(page 608 of Draft Black Country Plan)

Finchfield Waterside Care (Keep Britain Tidy) is a group of local volunteers that looks after Finchfield Brook and its environs where it flows through the Smestow Valley Local Nature Reserve (LNR)

We believe it is a serious mistake to include the former Wolverhampton Environment Centre (the WEC) in the Black Country Plan. Residential or commercial development on the WEC will have a deleterious effect on the wildlife and people who use the Local Nature Reserve.

Houses bring traffic. [CC4 - Air Quality page 277]
- Traffic pollutes the air. [HW1 p.74…… BCP aims to ‘create an environment that protects and improves the physical, social and mental health and wellbeing of its residents, employees and visitors and reduces health inequalities’] The proposed houses on the WEC will be
occupied 24/7. At the moment we volunteers leave our cars at [redacted]. We walk to the Brook and enjoy exercise in fresh air.

- Traffic harms wildlife and people. [ENV1 - Nature Conservation, p201……’ development is not permitted where it would harm nationally (Sites of Special Scientific Interest and National Nature Reserves) or regionally (Local Nature Reserves and Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation) designated nature conservation sites’ ] To get to the WECs traffic will enter the Local Nature Reserve, it will cross a greenway.

[Protected Species] inhabit the wetlands around the WEC. Crushed bodies, ‘road kill’, should not be a feature of a nature reserve. [ENV1 d) ‘the movement of wildlife within the Black Country and its adjoining areas, through both linear habitats (e.g. wildlife corridors) and the wider urban matrix (e.g. stepping-stone sites) is not impeded by development’]

Houses and traffic pollute water courses. [CC6 – Sustainable Drainage and Surface Water Management p.288]
- Since October 2018 Waterside Care has reported to the Environment Agency seventeen cases of pollution in the Brook. Most of the causes of pollution are household effluence but one case involved the dumping of engine oil in the water. The Brook flows into the canal and the Smestow Brook and then the Stour. [Protected species] are returning to Staffs-Worcester Canal. The BBC Wildlife Trust is promoting ‘Salmon in the Stour’, a campaign for clean water. Housing on the WEC will not help the aim of Waterside Care to create a healthy stream for the benefit of people and wildlife.

Housing will contribute to flooding. [CC5 – Flood Risk p. 282] Houses, access roads, and hard driveways prevent rain water from seeping into the soil to replenish aquifers. The water will instead be directed into drains which flow into the Finchfield Brook.

- Flood-water from the Brook regularly makes the public footpath to Wightwick Mill Lock impassable after heavy rain. Each month Waterside Care volunteers dredge silt from the Brook to alleviate flooding. Fourteen houses in the catchment area of the Brook will add to the problem of flooding.

- The 0.45 ha site in the WEC allocated in the BCP for 14 houses is developing into a shallow wetland. This wetland will absorb water that would otherwise find its way into the Brook.

- The developing wetland will provide an aqua habitat, of which there are too few in the LNR

- The developing wetland will extend the area suitable for the endangered species, the existing [protected species]

Houses and traffic bring……
- Lights and noise pollution to disturb the foraging and breeding habits of wildlife.
- Domestic cats, deadly for birds and small mammals
- Litter. Waterside Care is justly proud of its success in clearing litter from the Railway Walk, Turner’s Field and Finchfield Brook every month. Each year we prevent several kilos of plastic, foil and cans from entering the canal and the Smestow Brook.

The WEC is in the Green Belt. It is in the Local Nature Reserve. It is a place of peace and tranquillity.
- We, volunteers with Waterside Care, appreciate the benefits that the Smestow Valley Local Nature Reserve has brought to us, especially during the recent pandemic. Houses on the WEC will undermine values underpinning care for the environment, values which are essential to combating climate change.

Creating a stronger, prosperous and sustainable Black Country
Waterside Care spreads the message of ‘Care for the Environment’
- To allow houses to be built on the WEC, in the Green Belt in the middle of the city’s only Local Nature Reserve will send a contrary message that Wolverhampton does not care for the challenge of climate change nor for the natural environment which will help to meet that challenge.

Therefore we, the undersigned volunteers with Waterside Care, strongly oppose the inclusion of any part of the Wolverhampton Environment Centre as a site for potential development in the Black Country Plan.

Object

Representation ID: 44858

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: John Rowley

Objection to Site Allocation WHO 274 WTNA
(page 608 of Draft Black Country Plan)

Finchfield Waterside Care (Keep Britain Tidy) is a group of local volunteers that looks after Finchfield Brook and its environs where it flows through the Smestow Valley Local Nature Reserve (LNR)

We believe it is a serious mistake to include the former Wolverhampton Environment Centre (the WEC) in the Black Country Plan. Residential or commercial development on the WEC will have a deleterious effect on the wildlife and people who use the Local Nature Reserve.

Houses bring traffic. [CC4 - Air Quality page 277]
- Traffic pollutes the air. [HW1 p.74…… BCP aims to ‘create an environment that protects and improves the physical, social and mental health and wellbeing of its residents, employees and visitors and reduces health inequalities’] The proposed houses on the WEC will be
occupied 24/7. At the moment we volunteers leave our cars at [redacted]. We walk to the Brook and enjoy exercise in fresh air.

- Traffic harms wildlife and people. [ENV1 - Nature Conservation, p201……’ development is not permitted where it would harm nationally (Sites of Special Scientific Interest and National Nature Reserves) or regionally (Local Nature Reserves and Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation) designated nature conservation sites’ ] To get to the WECs traffic will enter the Local Nature Reserve, it will cross a greenway.

[Protected Species] inhabit the wetlands around the WEC. Crushed bodies, ‘road kill’, should not be a feature of a nature reserve. [ENV1 d) ‘the movement of wildlife within the Black Country and its adjoining areas, through both linear habitats (e.g. wildlife corridors) and the wider urban matrix (e.g. stepping-stone sites) is not impeded by development’]

Houses and traffic pollute water courses. [CC6 – Sustainable Drainage and Surface Water Management p.288]
- Since October 2018 Waterside Care has reported to the Environment Agency seventeen cases of pollution in the Brook. Most of the causes of pollution are household effluence but one case involved the dumping of engine oil in the water. The Brook flows into the canal and the Smestow Brook and then the Stour. [Protected species] are returning to Staffs-Worcester Canal. The BBC Wildlife Trust is promoting ‘Salmon in the Stour’, a campaign for clean water. Housing on the WEC will not help the aim of Waterside Care to create a healthy stream for the benefit of people and wildlife.

Housing will contribute to flooding. [CC5 – Flood Risk p. 282] Houses, access roads, and hard driveways prevent rain water from seeping into the soil to replenish aquifers. The water will instead be directed into drains which flow into the Finchfield Brook.

- Flood-water from the Brook regularly makes the public footpath to Wightwick Mill Lock impassable after heavy rain. Each month Waterside Care volunteers dredge silt from the Brook to alleviate flooding. Fourteen houses in the catchment area of the Brook will add to the problem of flooding.

- The 0.45 ha site in the WEC allocated in the BCP for 14 houses is developing into a shallow wetland. This wetland will absorb water that would otherwise find its way into the Brook.

- The developing wetland will provide an aqua habitat, of which there are too few in the LNR

- The developing wetland will extend the area suitable for the endangered species, the existing [protected species]

Houses and traffic bring……
- Lights and noise pollution to disturb the foraging and breeding habits of wildlife.
- Domestic cats, deadly for birds and small mammals
- Litter. Waterside Care is justly proud of its success in clearing litter from the Railway Walk, Turner’s Field and Finchfield Brook every month. Each year we prevent several kilos of plastic, foil and cans from entering the canal and the Smestow Brook.

The WEC is in the Green Belt. It is in the Local Nature Reserve. It is a place of peace and tranquillity.
- We, volunteers with Waterside Care, appreciate the benefits that the Smestow Valley Local Nature Reserve has brought to us, especially during the recent pandemic. Houses on the WEC will undermine values underpinning care for the environment, values which are essential to combating climate change.

Creating a stronger, prosperous and sustainable Black Country
Waterside Care spreads the message of ‘Care for the Environment’
- To allow houses to be built on the WEC, in the Green Belt in the middle of the city’s only Local Nature Reserve will send a contrary message that Wolverhampton does not care for the challenge of climate change nor for the natural environment which will help to meet that challenge.

Therefore we, the undersigned volunteers with Waterside Care, strongly oppose the inclusion of any part of the Wolverhampton Environment Centre as a site for potential development in the Black Country Plan.

Object

Representation ID: 44860

Received: 07/10/2021

Respondent: Andrea Cantrill

Objection to Site Allocation WHO 274 WTNA
(page 608 of Draft Black Country Plan)

Finchfield Waterside Care (Keep Britain Tidy) is a group of local volunteers that looks after Finchfield Brook and its environs where it flows through the Smestow Valley Local Nature Reserve (LNR)

We believe it is a serious mistake to include the former Wolverhampton Environment Centre (the WEC) in the Black Country Plan. Residential or commercial development on the WEC will have a deleterious effect on the wildlife and people who use the Local Nature Reserve.

Houses bring traffic. [CC4 - Air Quality page 277]
- Traffic pollutes the air. [HW1 p.74…… BCP aims to ‘create an environment that protects and improves the physical, social and mental health and wellbeing of its residents, employees and visitors and reduces health inequalities’] The proposed houses on the WEC will be
occupied 24/7. At the moment we volunteers leave our cars at [redacted]. We walk to the Brook and enjoy exercise in fresh air.

- Traffic harms wildlife and people. [ENV1 - Nature Conservation, p201……’ development is not permitted where it would harm nationally (Sites of Special Scientific Interest and National Nature Reserves) or regionally (Local Nature Reserves and Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation) designated nature conservation sites’ ] To get to the WECs traffic will enter the Local Nature Reserve, it will cross a greenway.

[Protected Species] inhabit the wetlands around the WEC. Crushed bodies, ‘road kill’, should not be a feature of a nature reserve. [ENV1 d) ‘the movement of wildlife within the Black Country and its adjoining areas, through both linear habitats (e.g. wildlife corridors) and the wider urban matrix (e.g. stepping-stone sites) is not impeded by development’]

Houses and traffic pollute water courses. [CC6 – Sustainable Drainage and Surface Water Management p.288]
- Since October 2018 Waterside Care has reported to the Environment Agency seventeen cases of pollution in the Brook. Most of the causes of pollution are household effluence but one case involved the dumping of engine oil in the water. The Brook flows into the canal and the Smestow Brook and then the Stour. [Protected species] are returning to Staffs-Worcester Canal. The BBC Wildlife Trust is promoting ‘Salmon in the Stour’, a campaign for clean water. Housing on the WEC will not help the aim of Waterside Care to create a healthy stream for the benefit of people and wildlife.

Housing will contribute to flooding. [CC5 – Flood Risk p. 282] Houses, access roads, and hard driveways prevent rain water from seeping into the soil to replenish aquifers. The water will instead be directed into drains which flow into the Finchfield Brook.

- Flood-water from the Brook regularly makes the public footpath to Wightwick Mill Lock impassable after heavy rain. Each month Waterside Care volunteers dredge silt from the Brook to alleviate flooding. Fourteen houses in the catchment area of the Brook will add to the problem of flooding.

- The 0.45 ha site in the WEC allocated in the BCP for 14 houses is developing into a shallow wetland. This wetland will absorb water that would otherwise find its way into the Brook.

- The developing wetland will provide an aqua habitat, of which there are too few in the LNR

- The developing wetland will extend the area suitable for the endangered species, the existing [protected species]

Houses and traffic bring……
- Lights and noise pollution to disturb the foraging and breeding habits of wildlife.
- Domestic cats, deadly for birds and small mammals
- Litter. Waterside Care is justly proud of its success in clearing litter from the Railway Walk, Turner’s Field and Finchfield Brook every month. Each year we prevent several kilos of plastic, foil and cans from entering the canal and the Smestow Brook.

The WEC is in the Green Belt. It is in the Local Nature Reserve. It is a place of peace and tranquillity.
- We, volunteers with Waterside Care, appreciate the benefits that the Smestow Valley Local Nature Reserve has brought to us, especially during the recent pandemic. Houses on the WEC will undermine values underpinning care for the environment, values which are essential to combating climate change.

Creating a stronger, prosperous and sustainable Black Country
Waterside Care spreads the message of ‘Care for the Environment’
- To allow houses to be built on the WEC, in the Green Belt in the middle of the city’s only Local Nature Reserve will send a contrary message that Wolverhampton does not care for the challenge of climate change nor for the natural environment which will help to meet that challenge.

Therefore we, the undersigned volunteers with Waterside Care, strongly oppose the inclusion of any part of the Wolverhampton Environment Centre as a site for potential development in the Black Country Plan.

Object

Representation ID: 44861

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Finchfield and Castlecroft Community Association

Objection to Site Allocation WHO 274 WTNA
(page 608 of Draft Black Country Plan)

Finchfield Waterside Care (Keep Britain Tidy) is a group of local volunteers that looks after Finchfield Brook and its environs where it flows through the Smestow Valley Local Nature Reserve (LNR)

We believe it is a serious mistake to include the former Wolverhampton Environment Centre (the WEC) in the Black Country Plan. Residential or commercial development on the WEC will have a deleterious effect on the wildlife and people who use the Local Nature Reserve.

Houses bring traffic. [CC4 - Air Quality page 277]
- Traffic pollutes the air. [HW1 p.74…… BCP aims to ‘create an environment that protects and improves the physical, social and mental health and wellbeing of its residents, employees and visitors and reduces health inequalities’] The proposed houses on the WEC will be
occupied 24/7. At the moment we volunteers leave our cars at [redacted]. We walk to the Brook and enjoy exercise in fresh air.

- Traffic harms wildlife and people. [ENV1 - Nature Conservation, p201……’ development is not permitted where it would harm nationally (Sites of Special Scientific Interest and National Nature Reserves) or regionally (Local Nature Reserves and Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation) designated nature conservation sites’ ] To get to the WECs traffic will enter the Local Nature Reserve, it will cross a greenway.

[Protected Species] inhabit the wetlands around the WEC. Crushed bodies, ‘road kill’, should not be a feature of a nature reserve. [ENV1 d) ‘the movement of wildlife within the Black Country and its adjoining areas, through both linear habitats (e.g. wildlife corridors) and the wider urban matrix (e.g. stepping-stone sites) is not impeded by development’]

Houses and traffic pollute water courses. [CC6 – Sustainable Drainage and Surface Water Management p.288]
- Since October 2018 Waterside Care has reported to the Environment Agency seventeen cases of pollution in the Brook. Most of the causes of pollution are household effluence but one case involved the dumping of engine oil in the water. The Brook flows into the canal and the Smestow Brook and then the Stour. [Protected species] are returning to Staffs-Worcester Canal. The BBC Wildlife Trust is promoting ‘Salmon in the Stour’, a campaign for clean water. Housing on the WEC will not help the aim of Waterside Care to create a healthy stream for the benefit of people and wildlife.

Housing will contribute to flooding. [CC5 – Flood Risk p. 282] Houses, access roads, and hard driveways prevent rain water from seeping into the soil to replenish aquifers. The water will instead be directed into drains which flow into the Finchfield Brook.

- Flood-water from the Brook regularly makes the public footpath to Wightwick Mill Lock impassable after heavy rain. Each month Waterside Care volunteers dredge silt from the Brook to alleviate flooding. Fourteen houses in the catchment area of the Brook will add to the problem of flooding.

- The 0.45 ha site in the WEC allocated in the BCP for 14 houses is developing into a shallow wetland. This wetland will absorb water that would otherwise find its way into the Brook.

- The developing wetland will provide an aqua habitat, of which there are too few in the LNR

- The developing wetland will extend the area suitable for the endangered species, the existing [protected species]

Houses and traffic bring……
- Lights and noise pollution to disturb the foraging and breeding habits of wildlife.
- Domestic cats, deadly for birds and small mammals
- Litter. Waterside Care is justly proud of its success in clearing litter from the Railway Walk, Turner’s Field and Finchfield Brook every month. Each year we prevent several kilos of plastic, foil and cans from entering the canal and the Smestow Brook.

The WEC is in the Green Belt. It is in the Local Nature Reserve. It is a place of peace and tranquillity.
- We, volunteers with Waterside Care, appreciate the benefits that the Smestow Valley Local Nature Reserve has brought to us, especially during the recent pandemic. Houses on the WEC will undermine values underpinning care for the environment, values which are essential to combating climate change.

Creating a stronger, prosperous and sustainable Black Country
Waterside Care spreads the message of ‘Care for the Environment’
- To allow houses to be built on the WEC, in the Green Belt in the middle of the city’s only Local Nature Reserve will send a contrary message that Wolverhampton does not care for the challenge of climate change nor for the natural environment which will help to meet that challenge.

Therefore we, the undersigned volunteers with Waterside Care, strongly oppose the inclusion of any part of the Wolverhampton Environment Centre as a site for potential development in the Black Country Plan.

Object

Representation ID: 44862

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: David Guest

Objection to Site Allocation WHO 274 WTNA
(page 608 of Draft Black Country Plan)

Finchfield Waterside Care (Keep Britain Tidy) is a group of local volunteers that looks after Finchfield Brook and its environs where it flows through the Smestow Valley Local Nature Reserve (LNR)

We believe it is a serious mistake to include the former Wolverhampton Environment Centre (the WEC) in the Black Country Plan. Residential or commercial development on the WEC will have a deleterious effect on the wildlife and people who use the Local Nature Reserve.

Houses bring traffic. [CC4 - Air Quality page 277]
- Traffic pollutes the air. [HW1 p.74…… BCP aims to ‘create an environment that protects and improves the physical, social and mental health and wellbeing of its residents, employees and visitors and reduces health inequalities’] The proposed houses on the WEC will be
occupied 24/7. At the moment we volunteers leave our cars at [redacted]. We walk to the Brook and enjoy exercise in fresh air.

- Traffic harms wildlife and people. [ENV1 - Nature Conservation, p201……’ development is not permitted where it would harm nationally (Sites of Special Scientific Interest and National Nature Reserves) or regionally (Local Nature Reserves and Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation) designated nature conservation sites’ ] To get to the WECs traffic will enter the Local Nature Reserve, it will cross a greenway.

[Protected Species] inhabit the wetlands around the WEC. Crushed bodies, ‘road kill’, should not be a feature of a nature reserve. [ENV1 d) ‘the movement of wildlife within the Black Country and its adjoining areas, through both linear habitats (e.g. wildlife corridors) and the wider urban matrix (e.g. stepping-stone sites) is not impeded by development’]

Houses and traffic pollute water courses. [CC6 – Sustainable Drainage and Surface Water Management p.288]
- Since October 2018 Waterside Care has reported to the Environment Agency seventeen cases of pollution in the Brook. Most of the causes of pollution are household effluence but one case involved the dumping of engine oil in the water. The Brook flows into the canal and the Smestow Brook and then the Stour. [Protected species] are returning to Staffs-Worcester Canal. The BBC Wildlife Trust is promoting ‘Salmon in the Stour’, a campaign for clean water. Housing on the WEC will not help the aim of Waterside Care to create a healthy stream for the benefit of people and wildlife.

Housing will contribute to flooding. [CC5 – Flood Risk p. 282] Houses, access roads, and hard driveways prevent rain water from seeping into the soil to replenish aquifers. The water will instead be directed into drains which flow into the Finchfield Brook.

- Flood-water from the Brook regularly makes the public footpath to Wightwick Mill Lock impassable after heavy rain. Each month Waterside Care volunteers dredge silt from the Brook to alleviate flooding. Fourteen houses in the catchment area of the Brook will add to the problem of flooding.

- The 0.45 ha site in the WEC allocated in the BCP for 14 houses is developing into a shallow wetland. This wetland will absorb water that would otherwise find its way into the Brook.

- The developing wetland will provide an aqua habitat, of which there are too few in the LNR

- The developing wetland will extend the area suitable for the endangered species, the existing [protected species]

Houses and traffic bring……
- Lights and noise pollution to disturb the foraging and breeding habits of wildlife.
- Domestic cats, deadly for birds and small mammals
- Litter. Waterside Care is justly proud of its success in clearing litter from the Railway Walk, Turner’s Field and Finchfield Brook every month. Each year we prevent several kilos of plastic, foil and cans from entering the canal and the Smestow Brook.

The WEC is in the Green Belt. It is in the Local Nature Reserve. It is a place of peace and tranquillity.
- We, volunteers with Waterside Care, appreciate the benefits that the Smestow Valley Local Nature Reserve has brought to us, especially during the recent pandemic. Houses on the WEC will undermine values underpinning care for the environment, values which are essential to combating climate change.

Creating a stronger, prosperous and sustainable Black Country
Waterside Care spreads the message of ‘Care for the Environment’
- To allow houses to be built on the WEC, in the Green Belt in the middle of the city’s only Local Nature Reserve will send a contrary message that Wolverhampton does not care for the challenge of climate change nor for the natural environment which will help to meet that challenge.

Therefore we, the undersigned volunteers with Waterside Care, strongly oppose the inclusion of any part of the Wolverhampton Environment Centre as a site for potential development in the Black Country Plan.

Object

Representation ID: 44863

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Finchfield Waterside Care (Keep Britain Tidy)

Objection to Site Allocation WHO 274 WTNA
(page 608 of Draft Black Country Plan)

Finchfield Waterside Care (Keep Britain Tidy) is a group of local volunteers that looks after Finchfield Brook and its environs where it flows through the Smestow Valley Local Nature Reserve (LNR)

We believe it is a serious mistake to include the former Wolverhampton Environment Centre (the WEC) in the Black Country Plan. Residential or commercial development on the WEC will have a deleterious effect on the wildlife and people who use the Local Nature Reserve.

Houses bring traffic. [CC4 - Air Quality page 277]
- Traffic pollutes the air. [HW1 p.74…… BCP aims to ‘create an environment that protects and improves the physical, social and mental health and wellbeing of its residents, employees and visitors and reduces health inequalities’] The proposed houses on the WEC will be
occupied 24/7. At the moment we volunteers leave our cars at [redacted]. We walk to the Brook and enjoy exercise in fresh air.

- Traffic harms wildlife and people. [ENV1 - Nature Conservation, p201……’ development is not permitted where it would harm nationally (Sites of Special Scientific Interest and National Nature Reserves) or regionally (Local Nature Reserves and Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation) designated nature conservation sites’ ] To get to the WECs traffic will enter the Local Nature Reserve, it will cross a greenway.

[Protected Species] inhabit the wetlands around the WEC. Crushed bodies, ‘road kill’, should not be a feature of a nature reserve. [ENV1 d) ‘the movement of wildlife within the Black Country and its adjoining areas, through both linear habitats (e.g. wildlife corridors) and the wider urban matrix (e.g. stepping-stone sites) is not impeded by development’]

Houses and traffic pollute water courses. [CC6 – Sustainable Drainage and Surface Water Management p.288]
- Since October 2018 Waterside Care has reported to the Environment Agency seventeen cases of pollution in the Brook. Most of the causes of pollution are household effluence but one case involved the dumping of engine oil in the water. The Brook flows into the canal and the Smestow Brook and then the Stour. [Protected species] are returning to Staffs-Worcester Canal. The BBC Wildlife Trust is promoting ‘Salmon in the Stour’, a campaign for clean water. Housing on the WEC will not help the aim of Waterside Care to create a healthy stream for the benefit of people and wildlife.

Housing will contribute to flooding. [CC5 – Flood Risk p. 282] Houses, access roads, and hard driveways prevent rain water from seeping into the soil to replenish aquifers. The water will instead be directed into drains which flow into the Finchfield Brook.

- Flood-water from the Brook regularly makes the public footpath to Wightwick Mill Lock impassable after heavy rain. Each month Waterside Care volunteers dredge silt from the Brook to alleviate flooding. Fourteen houses in the catchment area of the Brook will add to the problem of flooding.

- The 0.45 ha site in the WEC allocated in the BCP for 14 houses is developing into a shallow wetland. This wetland will absorb water that would otherwise find its way into the Brook.

- The developing wetland will provide an aqua habitat, of which there are too few in the LNR

- The developing wetland will extend the area suitable for the endangered species, the existing [protected species]

Houses and traffic bring……
- Lights and noise pollution to disturb the foraging and breeding habits of wildlife.
- Domestic cats, deadly for birds and small mammals
- Litter. Waterside Care is justly proud of its success in clearing litter from the Railway Walk, Turner’s Field and Finchfield Brook every month. Each year we prevent several kilos of plastic, foil and cans from entering the canal and the Smestow Brook.

The WEC is in the Green Belt. It is in the Local Nature Reserve. It is a place of peace and tranquillity.
- We, volunteers with Waterside Care, appreciate the benefits that the Smestow Valley Local Nature Reserve has brought to us, especially during the recent pandemic. Houses on the WEC will undermine values underpinning care for the environment, values which are essential to combating climate change.

Creating a stronger, prosperous and sustainable Black Country
Waterside Care spreads the message of ‘Care for the Environment’
- To allow houses to be built on the WEC, in the Green Belt in the middle of the city’s only Local Nature Reserve will send a contrary message that Wolverhampton does not care for the challenge of climate change nor for the natural environment which will help to meet that challenge.

Therefore we, the undersigned volunteers with Waterside Care, strongly oppose the inclusion of any part of the Wolverhampton Environment Centre as a site for potential development in the Black Country Plan.

Object

Representation ID: 44864

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Finchfield Waterside Care (Keep Britain Tidy)

Objection to Site Allocation WHO 274 WTNA
(page 608 of Draft Black Country Plan)

Finchfield Waterside Care (Keep Britain Tidy) is a group of local volunteers that looks after Finchfield Brook and its environs where it flows through the Smestow Valley Local Nature Reserve (LNR)

We believe it is a serious mistake to include the former Wolverhampton Environment Centre (the WEC) in the Black Country Plan. Residential or commercial development on the WEC will have a deleterious effect on the wildlife and people who use the Local Nature Reserve.

Houses bring traffic. [CC4 - Air Quality page 277]
- Traffic pollutes the air. [HW1 p.74…… BCP aims to ‘create an environment that protects and improves the physical, social and mental health and wellbeing of its residents, employees and visitors and reduces health inequalities’] The proposed houses on the WEC will be
occupied 24/7. At the moment we volunteers leave our cars at [redacted]. We walk to the Brook and enjoy exercise in fresh air.

- Traffic harms wildlife and people. [ENV1 - Nature Conservation, p201……’ development is not permitted where it would harm nationally (Sites of Special Scientific Interest and National Nature Reserves) or regionally (Local Nature Reserves and Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation) designated nature conservation sites’ ] To get to the WECs traffic will enter the Local Nature Reserve, it will cross a greenway.

[Protected Species] inhabit the wetlands around the WEC. Crushed bodies, ‘road kill’, should not be a feature of a nature reserve. [ENV1 d) ‘the movement of wildlife within the Black Country and its adjoining areas, through both linear habitats (e.g. wildlife corridors) and the wider urban matrix (e.g. stepping-stone sites) is not impeded by development’]

Houses and traffic pollute water courses. [CC6 – Sustainable Drainage and Surface Water Management p.288]
- Since October 2018 Waterside Care has reported to the Environment Agency seventeen cases of pollution in the Brook. Most of the causes of pollution are household effluence but one case involved the dumping of engine oil in the water. The Brook flows into the canal and the Smestow Brook and then the Stour. [Protected species] are returning to Staffs-Worcester Canal. The BBC Wildlife Trust is promoting ‘Salmon in the Stour’, a campaign for clean water. Housing on the WEC will not help the aim of Waterside Care to create a healthy stream for the benefit of people and wildlife.

Housing will contribute to flooding. [CC5 – Flood Risk p. 282] Houses, access roads, and hard driveways prevent rain water from seeping into the soil to replenish aquifers. The water will instead be directed into drains which flow into the Finchfield Brook.

- Flood-water from the Brook regularly makes the public footpath to Wightwick Mill Lock impassable after heavy rain. Each month Waterside Care volunteers dredge silt from the Brook to alleviate flooding. Fourteen houses in the catchment area of the Brook will add to the problem of flooding.

- The 0.45 ha site in the WEC allocated in the BCP for 14 houses is developing into a shallow wetland. This wetland will absorb water that would otherwise find its way into the Brook.

- The developing wetland will provide an aqua habitat, of which there are too few in the LNR

- The developing wetland will extend the area suitable for the endangered species, the existing [protected species]

Houses and traffic bring……
- Lights and noise pollution to disturb the foraging and breeding habits of wildlife.
- Domestic cats, deadly for birds and small mammals
- Litter. Waterside Care is justly proud of its success in clearing litter from the Railway Walk, Turner’s Field and Finchfield Brook every month. Each year we prevent several kilos of plastic, foil and cans from entering the canal and the Smestow Brook.

The WEC is in the Green Belt. It is in the Local Nature Reserve. It is a place of peace and tranquillity.
- We, volunteers with Waterside Care, appreciate the benefits that the Smestow Valley Local Nature Reserve has brought to us, especially during the recent pandemic. Houses on the WEC will undermine values underpinning care for the environment, values which are essential to combating climate change.

Creating a stronger, prosperous and sustainable Black Country
Waterside Care spreads the message of ‘Care for the Environment’
- To allow houses to be built on the WEC, in the Green Belt in the middle of the city’s only Local Nature Reserve will send a contrary message that Wolverhampton does not care for the challenge of climate change nor for the natural environment which will help to meet that challenge.

Therefore we, the undersigned volunteers with Waterside Care, strongly oppose the inclusion of any part of the Wolverhampton Environment Centre as a site for potential development in the Black Country Plan.

Object

Representation ID: 44865

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Finchfield Waterside Care (Keep Britain Tidy)

Objection to Site Allocation WHO 274 WTNA
(page 608 of Draft Black Country Plan)

Finchfield Waterside Care (Keep Britain Tidy) is a group of local volunteers that looks after Finchfield Brook and its environs where it flows through the Smestow Valley Local Nature Reserve (LNR)

We believe it is a serious mistake to include the former Wolverhampton Environment Centre (the WEC) in the Black Country Plan. Residential or commercial development on the WEC will have a deleterious effect on the wildlife and people who use the Local Nature Reserve.

Houses bring traffic. [CC4 - Air Quality page 277]
- Traffic pollutes the air. [HW1 p.74…… BCP aims to ‘create an environment that protects and improves the physical, social and mental health and wellbeing of its residents, employees and visitors and reduces health inequalities’] The proposed houses on the WEC will be
occupied 24/7. At the moment we volunteers leave our cars at [redacted]. We walk to the Brook and enjoy exercise in fresh air.

- Traffic harms wildlife and people. [ENV1 - Nature Conservation, p201……’ development is not permitted where it would harm nationally (Sites of Special Scientific Interest and National Nature Reserves) or regionally (Local Nature Reserves and Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation) designated nature conservation sites’ ] To get to the WECs traffic will enter the Local Nature Reserve, it will cross a greenway.

[Protected Species] inhabit the wetlands around the WEC. Crushed bodies, ‘road kill’, should not be a feature of a nature reserve. [ENV1 d) ‘the movement of wildlife within the Black Country and its adjoining areas, through both linear habitats (e.g. wildlife corridors) and the wider urban matrix (e.g. stepping-stone sites) is not impeded by development’]

Houses and traffic pollute water courses. [CC6 – Sustainable Drainage and Surface Water Management p.288]
- Since October 2018 Waterside Care has reported to the Environment Agency seventeen cases of pollution in the Brook. Most of the causes of pollution are household effluence but one case involved the dumping of engine oil in the water. The Brook flows into the canal and the Smestow Brook and then the Stour. [Protected species] are returning to Staffs-Worcester Canal. The BBC Wildlife Trust is promoting ‘Salmon in the Stour’, a campaign for clean water. Housing on the WEC will not help the aim of Waterside Care to create a healthy stream for the benefit of people and wildlife.

Housing will contribute to flooding. [CC5 – Flood Risk p. 282] Houses, access roads, and hard driveways prevent rain water from seeping into the soil to replenish aquifers. The water will instead be directed into drains which flow into the Finchfield Brook.

- Flood-water from the Brook regularly makes the public footpath to Wightwick Mill Lock impassable after heavy rain. Each month Waterside Care volunteers dredge silt from the Brook to alleviate flooding. Fourteen houses in the catchment area of the Brook will add to the problem of flooding.

- The 0.45 ha site in the WEC allocated in the BCP for 14 houses is developing into a shallow wetland. This wetland will absorb water that would otherwise find its way into the Brook.

- The developing wetland will provide an aqua habitat, of which there are too few in the LNR

- The developing wetland will extend the area suitable for the endangered species, the existing [protected species]

Houses and traffic bring……
- Lights and noise pollution to disturb the foraging and breeding habits of wildlife.
- Domestic cats, deadly for birds and small mammals
- Litter. Waterside Care is justly proud of its success in clearing litter from the Railway Walk, Turner’s Field and Finchfield Brook every month. Each year we prevent several kilos of plastic, foil and cans from entering the canal and the Smestow Brook.

The WEC is in the Green Belt. It is in the Local Nature Reserve. It is a place of peace and tranquillity.
- We, volunteers with Waterside Care, appreciate the benefits that the Smestow Valley Local Nature Reserve has brought to us, especially during the recent pandemic. Houses on the WEC will undermine values underpinning care for the environment, values which are essential to combating climate change.

Creating a stronger, prosperous and sustainable Black Country
Waterside Care spreads the message of ‘Care for the Environment’
- To allow houses to be built on the WEC, in the Green Belt in the middle of the city’s only Local Nature Reserve will send a contrary message that Wolverhampton does not care for the challenge of climate change nor for the natural environment which will help to meet that challenge.

Therefore we, the undersigned volunteers with Waterside Care, strongly oppose the inclusion of any part of the Wolverhampton Environment Centre as a site for potential development in the Black Country Plan.

Object

Representation ID: 44874

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country

WOE737 BCRA - Bilston Urban Village
WTBBC have concluded that the Site Assessment process should not have selected site:
• Site has been identified as Potential Site of Importance (for nature conservation).
• A Local (wildlife) Site Assessment is required to provide evidence to inform the BCP Site Assessment process. This has not been undertaken and therefore WTBBC object to the allocation on this basis.
• High potential for/evidence of the presence of priority habitats and species (namely Open Mosaic Habitats on Previously Developed Land (OMHPDL), rare plants, butterflies and other notable invertebrates/of conservation concern).
• Site forms part of important and well-connected area in Draft Local Nature Recovery Strategy.

Object

Representation ID: 44875

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country

WOE703 WCRA - Dean Road / Neachells Lane
WTBBC have concluded that the Site Assessment process should not have selected site:
• The site is a Site of Local Importance for Nature Conservation (SLINC). The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) states that Local Plans should safeguard components of local wildlife-rich habitats and wider ecological networks, including locally designated sites of importance for biodiversity. WTBBC therefore object to the allocation on this basis.
• High potential for/evidence of presence of statutory protected species.

Object

Representation ID: 44876

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country

WOE735 BCRA - South of Citadel Junction, Bilston
WTBBC have concluded that the Site Assessment process should not have selected site:
• The site includes an area of Site of Local Importance for Nature Conservation (SLINC). The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) states that Local Plans should safeguard components of local wildlife-rich habitats and wider ecological networks, including locally designated sites of importance for biodiversity.
• The remainder of this site is identified as Potential Site of Importance.
• A Local (wildlife) Site Assessment is required to provide evidence to inform the BCP Site Assessment process. This has not been undertaken and therefore WTBBC object to the allocation on this basis.

Comment

Representation ID: 44877

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country

WOE723 SRCRA - Gas Holder Site, Wolverhampton, Science Park
WTBBC have concluded that the Site Assessment process should not have selected site:
• Site has been identified as Potential Site of Importance (for nature conservation).
• A Local (wildlife) Site Assessment is required to provide evidence to inform the BCP Site Assessment process. This has not been undertaken and therefore WTBBC object to the allocation on this basis.

Object

Representation ID: 44878

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country

WOE662 BCRA - Former MEB site, Major Site / Dixon Street
WTBBC have concluded that the Site Assessment process should not have selected site:
• Site has been identified as Potential Site of Importance (for nature conservation).
• A Local (wildlife) Site Assessment is required to provide evidence to inform the BCP Site Assessment process. This has not been undertaken and therefore WTBBC object to the allocation on this basis.
• High potential for/evidence of the presence of priority habitats and species.

Comment

Representation ID: 44879

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country

WOE681 SRCRA - Cross Street North / Crown Street
WTBBC request that the following is required of the site redevelopment:
• Site adjacent to a canal SINC: Include measures to ensure the development doesn’t have both short and long term detrimental effects on the adjacent canal corridor (please also refer to WTBBC comment under policy ENV7) and, through the implementation of Black Country Plan Policy, support development that not only causes no damage but also delivers enhancements to the Local Nature Recovery Network.

Object

Representation ID: 44880

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country

WOE755 BCRA - Rolls Royce Playing Field, Spring Road
WTBBC have concluded that the Site Assessment process should not have selected site:
• Site has been identified as Potential Site of Importance (for nature conservation).
• A Local (wildlife) Site Assessment is required to provide evidence to inform the BCP Site Assessment process. This has not been undertaken and therefore WTBBC object to the allocation on this basis.

Object

Representation ID: 44881

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country

WOE725 SRCRA - Wolverhampton Business Park
WTBBC have concluded that the Site Assessment process should not have selected site:
• Site has been identified as Potential Site of Importance (for nature conservation).
• A Local (wildlife) Site Assessment is required to provide evidence to inform the BCP Site Assessment process. This has not been undertaken and therefore WTBBC object to the allocation on this basis.

Object

Representation ID: 44882

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country

WOE698 WCRA - Phoenix Road
WTBBC have concluded that the Site Assessment process should not have selected site:
• Site has been identified as Potential Site of Importance (for nature conservation).
• A Local (wildlife) Site Assessment is required to provide evidence to inform the BCP Site Assessment process. This has not been undertaken and therefore WTBBC object to the allocation on this basis.

Comment

Representation ID: 44883

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country

WOE757 BCRA - Inverclyde Drive
WTBBC request that the following is required of the site redevelopment:
• Site adjacent to a SLINC: Include measures to ensure the development doesn’t have both short and long term detrimental effects on the adjacent SLINC and, through the implementation of Black Country Plan Policy, support development that not only causes no damage but also delivers enhancements to the Local Nature Recovery Network.

Object

Representation ID: 44884

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country

WOE694 WCRA - Land behind Keyline Builders Merchants Ltd, Neachells Lane / Noose Lane
WTBBC have concluded that the Site Assessment process should not have selected site:
• Site has been identified as Potential Site of Importance (for nature conservation).
• A Local (wildlife) Site Assessment is required to provide evidence to inform the BCP Site Assessment process. This has not been undertaken and therefore WTBBC object to the allocation on this basis.

Comment

Representation ID: 44885

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country

WOE759 BCRA - Powerhouse, Commerical Road
It is WTBBC’s position that features within the site should be retained:
• Site adjacent to SINC: Include measures to ensure the development doesn’t have both short and long term detrimental effects on the adjacent SLINC and, through the implementation of Black Country Plan Policy, support development that not only causes no damage but also delivers enhancements to the Local Nature Recovery Network.

Object

Representation ID: 44886

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country

WOE727 SRCRA - Mammoth Drive, Wolverhampton Science Park
WTBBC have concluded that the Site Assessment process should not have selected site:
• Site has been identified as Potential Site of Importance (for nature conservation).
• A Local (wildlife) Site Assessment is required to provide evidence to inform the BCP Site Assessment process. This has not been undertaken and therefore WTBBC object to the allocation on this basis.
• Site forms part of well-connected important area in Draft Local Nature Recovery Strategy and forms a stepping-stone link between two SLINCs.

Comment

Representation ID: 44887

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country

WOE658 BCRA - Millfields Road, Ettingshall
BC request that the following is required of the site redevelopment:
• Site adjacent to a canal SINC: Include measures to ensure the development doesn’t have both short and long term detrimental effects on the adjacent canal corridor (please also refer to WTBBC comment under policy ENV7) and, through the implementation of Black Country Plan Policy, support development that not only causes no damage but also delivers enhancements to the Local Nature Recovery Network.

Object

Representation ID: 44888

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country

WOE726 SRCRA - Stratosphere Site, Wolverhampton Science Park
WTBBC have concluded that the Site Assessment process should not have selected site:
• The site includes an area of Site of Local Importance for Nature Conservation (SLINC). The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) states that Local Plans should safeguard components of local wildlife-rich habitats and wider ecological networks, including locally designated sites of importance for biodiversity.
• The remainder of this site is identified as Potential Site of Importance.
• A Local (wildlife) Site Assessment is required to provide evidence to inform the BCP Site Assessment process. This has not been undertaken and therefore WTBBC object to the allocation on this basis.