Policy WSA5 – Land at Yorks Bridge, Lichfield Road, Pelsall
Comment
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 10614
Received: 24/08/2021
Respondent: Mr David Smith
The site of local importance for nature conservation and the TPO affected trees in this area must be completely protected during and after development in order to maintain the amenities in this area and not impact on surrounding amenities.
Comment
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 10632
Received: 27/08/2021
Respondent: Mr John Edwards
This area shows excellent access and road infrastructure to support this development and should be extended to create further housing, towards Brownhills.
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 10778
Received: 11/09/2021
Respondent: Mr Michael Tomkinson
I would strongly encourage this is reconsidered for Pelsall as Pelsall is known for its small village feel and it’s green belt. There is not enough schools, and this will make the traffic worse and it will lose its village feel. With the site by the cannel this will encourage potential gathering of kids with the new proposed houses at the top end of Pelsall, and this will discourage families wanting to use this.
Comment
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 10804
Received: 11/09/2021
Respondent: Mr Michael Tomkinson
I would strongly encourage this is reconsidered for Pelsall as Pelsall is known for its small village feel and it’s green belt. There is not enough schools, and this will make the traffic worse and it will lose its village feel. With the site by the cannel this will encourage potential gathering of kids with the new proposed houses at the top end of Pelsall, and this will discourage families wanting to use this.
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 11058
Received: 21/09/2021
Respondent: Mr Graham Eardley
Lack of public transport in the area nearest rail station approximately 4 miles away
B4154 Norton Road / Lichfield Road Junction (Finger Post) as queueing traffic most days and would have to be remodelled if more house he was introduced to the area.
Lack of places at local dentists
School places already under pressure in the area.
Extra pressure on community services
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 11512
Received: 05/10/2021
Respondent: Mr Nigel Howell-Smith
Traffic Issues as rush hours in the area of Pelsall village is ridiculous, cars parking around school and amenities are blocking access and routes. The volume of traffic on the major arteries ie Walsall Road, Wolverhampton Road and Lime Lane are already at capacity.
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 11567
Received: 06/10/2021
Respondent: David and Marilyn Goode
With reference to the proposed planning for developments at York Bridge Pelsall and Coronation Road/Mob Lane we strongly object.
Firstly, these proposed sites are on fields and we consider these as green belt - not Brown fill sites.
Secondly, this will considerably impact on people already living in the area. It will not only ruin the quality of life for residents living in these areas. It will increase pressure on schools, our shops and Doctors with over populating these areas. We need our open spaces to walk and enjoy the countryside - we do not want more houses to look at!!
It will increase traffic especially where we live - it is only a small road but it is used as a rat run with traffic speeding down our road very fast! We cannot get off our drive at times with the number of cars, vans and lorries speeding down our road. These developments will only impact on an already busy small road. We do not want any more houses - we want the fields and open land for people and wild life in the area.
We strongly object to these proposed developments!!
The Midlands is already over populated - it is becoming an undesirable place to live.
It is about time they built in less populated places so that other communities take their fair share of
developments.
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 11589
Received: 06/10/2021
Respondent: Mr Bodie Kelay
Pelsall is Greenbelt
Totally wrong strategy, this village cannot sustain such an awful blot on the landscape. It looks like an act of desperation by the planners to meet outside demands without substance.
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 11769
Received: 08/10/2021
Respondent: Mr John Hemming
This proposal, along with WSA3 will increase the population of Pelsall by approx 25%. I do not feel that Pelsall's
infrastructure can cope. There are already long queues during rush hour coming in to Pelsall on the Lichfield road & Lime lane. Bus services are inadequate , rail services even more so. This will bring thousands more cars to the area. Parking in the village is difficult if not impossible at busy times. This will lead to the destruction of the greenbelt ring around the north of Pelsall that is unnaceptable and needs to be preserved for future generations
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 11876
Received: 10/10/2021
Respondent: Ms Julie Edwards
General comments. These plans are totally flawed. The last thing we need is more building on green belt. We have a dying town centre (Walsall town centre ) and Brownhills high st the old shopping centre), which needs radical changes and could easily accommodation new housing within the dilapidated Town centres. Yes we know it’s more expensive but they are dying with lack of people in them, such just like in much of Europe we need to put housing within the retail mix.
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 11878
Received: 10/10/2021
Respondent: Mrs Jane Hetherington
This area is important Green Belt land, home to wildlife, vital to the community, and a much-needed breathing space between existing housing and industrial buildings.
The road between Pelsall and Brownhills is already congested at peak times so this amount of housing would result in gridlock.
Pelsall does not have the medical/educational/retail/leisure facilities to absorb so many new families
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 12205
Received: 11/10/2021
Respondent: Mr Nick West
WAH236 YORKS BRIDGE. object on the following grounds;
Environmental impact-loss of trees and green space along with established hedgerow will have a major impact on the environment and wildlife therein. in the current climate green space is environmentally valuable for both wildlife and the local community.580 houses 2 cars average per house will result in increased traffic levels and associated air pollution in the local area. Adjacent junction of Lichfield rd/Norton rd (A4124/B4154) is already heavily congested at peak times. the proposed new canal bridge that will increase the no. of HGV's through Pelsall adding to the congestion/enviromental impact.
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 12264
Received: 13/10/2021
Respondent: Mr Anthony Cook
I object to the residential development plan for Pelsall at Yorks Bridge. Besides spoiling the Green belt this will also cause serve disruption problems to Lichfield Road and Norton Road. The Fingerpost Junction is already extremely hazardous and an accident black spot. Increased traffic from this development will compound the problem. The roads can barely cope with the existing traffic volumes.
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 12906
Received: 11/10/2021
Respondent: Mr Andrew Smith
Objections;
a) York Bridge, Persall - 580 New Homes
b) Coronation Road/ Mob Lane, Aldridge North Waalsall Road - 763 New Homes
Rationale for objections/ doubt & weakness;
* Protect our greenbelt; prevent urban sprawl into areas that are not geared to further development.
* Carbon neutrality; developments do not lend themself to improving and reducing pollution in already heavily residential areas.
* Brownfield sites; little or no evidence of regeneration in more appropriate areas
* Networks; current networks are already at capacity, leveraging these further will create significant adverse impact to residents during and after completion
* Construction; noise, air pollution in heavily residential areas for many years to come
* I am supportive of broader developments - the aforementioned are inappropriate for the local areas. I am prepared to take legal advice.
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 12935
Received: 24/09/2021
Respondent: Ms Rebecca Felton
It is entirely inappropriate to recommend the use of the current 'green belt' for housing projects. This land been designated a 'green belt' for a reason & should remain so. Instead 'brown belt' locations should be investigated to meet the increased housing demand, or regeneration of previous residental properties.
Neighbours and local residents have already complained about the volume of traffic and pollution within our village, therefore an increase in properties in this area would only further add to this issue.
Proposed new housing land near to the Pelsall north common (Highbridge & Foldfield Hall) would result in segregating the green belt areas & will ruin the picturesque scenery surrounding the common. Degradation of the green belt surrounding Pelsall North Common would devalue existing surrounding properties & force resistence who purchased properties within this area, for this green space area to relocate.
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 13243
Received: 03/10/2021
Respondent: Ms and Mr Lucy and Paul Harrington and Cicerella
Number of people: 2
I object to all of it, mostly the housing development sites to be built on green belt land. I object to the building on of the sites - Homes Farm (Sandhill), Yieldfields Farm (Bloxwich), Queslett Road East/ Aldridge Road (Streetly), Sutton Road/ Longwood Lane (Pheasey Park Farm), Yorks Bridge (Pelsall), Coronation Road/ Mob Lane (Aldridge North/ Walsall Wood), Calderfields/ Aldridge Road (St Matthews), Bentley Lane (Short Heath), Johnsons Farm, Meadow Farm/ Watling Street (Brownhills)
The reason I object - I think we should be preserving what little there is of green belt land, not destroying by building houses on it. There's no denying we are destroying the world and and acts like this are not helping. I strongly oppose it on ecological grounds, there's no counting how many animals (including bugs and insects) homes will get destroyed in the process and how bad the knock on effect will be for wildlife.
Also I am completely opposed to the cutting down of healthy trees for the same reasons above.
People who do these kind of things have no respect for the life they are destroying why is it never a consideration. I cannot explain enough how against this I am
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 13296
Received: 07/10/2021
Respondent: Mrs Nuala Nagy
Site No WAH236
I object to Green Belt sites being used. These have been more important during the pandemic when people could only go walking.
Why can't you use brown belt
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 13325
Received: 11/10/2021
Respondent: Mr Alan Stokes
The housing problem was not even considered 30 years ago when there was a need for our young people to be housed, but now we are letting thousands of people come into our country illegally, we now see the need for thousands of houses to be built (on our green belt)
this on the other hand flys in the height of hypocrasy! - So how is that going to help climate change?
My objection is in relation to site WAH236 and WAH238 WAH240
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 13337
Received: 10/10/2021
Respondent: Liz Farmer
I object to the Black Country Plan to build house son green belt land in Walsall (Calderfields) and Pelsall
This would also appear to be against government policy, the Prime Minister in his Conservative party conference speech 2021 made a commitment to building homes on brownfield sites, not on green fields
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 13398
Received: 07/10/2021
Respondent: . Brown
WALSALL
WAH236 YORKS BRIDGE
WAH238 WAH240 CORONATION ROAD/MOB LANE
please build on Brownfield sites.
please retain all true Green Belt land
we do not want urban sprawl- increased traffic, pollution
keep villages as separate individual communities.... > Being able to walk in local countryside is essential to physical and mental wellbeing.
Green space helps to combat climate crisis
Do not destroy habitats and ecosystems
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 13405
Received: 05/10/2021
Respondent: Mrs Anne Fletcher
5) WAH236 Yorks Bridge, Pelsall
This site is earmarked for a further 580 houses which will add to the disproportionate pressure places on our village facilities.
6) There should be more effort made to pinpoint other sites so that the amount of new housing can be more evenly distributed across the constituency
7) I note there is no large housing development allocated on the outskirts of Aldridge eg. Greenwood Road, Evdington Road, Bosty Lane/Walsall Road
8) There appears to be no identification of Brownfield sites on the map.
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 13610
Received: 05/10/2021
Respondent: Mrs Sarah Biggs
Pelsall – York’s Bridge
this objection is based on my views and the views of my husband [Redacted-GDPR]
our first objection is on the basis of transport infrastructure [Redacted-GDPR] Lichfield Rd [Redacted-GDPR] Yorks Bridge Site and during rush hour the traffic jams on this road are already horrendous if 580 houses are built then this could easily add another 1000 cars to this already stretched piece of road not to mention the 763 homes planned for the other side of pelsall coronation road mob lane
our next objection is the stress the proposal will place on local services the schools in Pelsall are already full ryders Hayes and st Michaels have no spaces and waiting lists pelsall village only has a few spaces the same can be said of the doctors surgeries within pelsall if the homes are to be filled by families there needs to be significant rises in school places and GPs available
our last objection would be the loss of our beautiful view of green belt land and we believe that our house will decrease in value because of this. in conclusion we object to this housing development as it will have a detrimental effect on transport and local services and we firmly believe that brownfield sites should be considered first of which there appears to be many in the local area
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 13649
Received: 06/10/2021
Respondent: Mr Kevin Adams
I am against all the work which is on the list particularly Pelsall and surrounding areas. I don't know how the roads will cope with all the traffic as well as myself at the minute can't get a regular GP or dentist. I feel schools can't cope and also the greenbelt helps the ozone layer and I moved to Pelsall because I like all the greenbelt on my doorstep so I am totally against all
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 13652
Received: 23/09/2021
Respondent: Mrs Lynn Humphries
I do not believe that there is any need to use up more greenbelt areas in Pelsall. Over the years they have built up the village at Moat Farm, Clayhanger, Goscote Lane, and many more sites including the estate at the back of St Pauls Crescent. Any more houses and the schools and public services would be stretched beyond capacity. The schools are already creaking under the strain of what has been built already.
Obviously it's people who don't come from Pelsall that are doing this not knowing Pelsall Village heritage, and that we don't want our village to lose its identity or its green places and just become a concrete jungle of houses joining all our small villages into one big splurge.
We need all our green areas, we moved here over 40 years ago for the open spaces, fresh air and trees. Pelsall greenlands have been destroyed enough!
Leave Pelsall alone! No more Houses!
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 13658
Received: 20/09/2021
Respondent: Mr Robert Metcalfe
My objection is to the use of Green Belt land. The strategy should be switched to Brownfield first
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 13680
Received: 10/10/2021
Respondent: Mrs Linda Hallett
Objection to the York's Bridge Pelsall proposal [WSA5].
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 13722
Received: 27/09/2021
Respondent: Mr John Carter
My first objection is in regard to the ratio of land to be developed at Streetly to that in Pelsall and the number of homes to be built at these sites:
Streetly 42 hectares with 960 homes
Pelsall 13 hectares with 580 homes
Surely the Pelsall site is less than a third the size of the Streetly site and should therefore have the equivalent number of around 290 homes and not double that figure i.e. the 580 allocated
I can only conclude that these new dwellings planned at the Pelsall site will be designed as more densely populated accommodation and advertised as waterfront properties which face onto the canal.
My second objection is that a new Yorks Bridge at Pelsall has been proposed for many years now as the current bridge is narrow, has blind approaches on both sides and was closed when a [Redacted] car driver struck the parapet wall recently, demolishing part of the bridge. I imagine that the majority of residents will welcome the installation of a canal crossing which is safe to use, conveniently sited for the new development and fit for purpose in the 21st century. However, unless a weight restriction is applied to the new bridge, HGV drivers will take advantage of the shortcut from the A5 to Walsall M5/M6 junctions avoiding Brownhills and Bloxwich thus increasing heavy goods traffic through Pelsall village. We have been given no assurances that any such restrictions will be implemented.
if 580 new homes are built here in Pelsall, what plans are in place to meet the educational needs for primary and junior age school children for example? The three existing schools would not be able to cope with an influx of over 1000 children potentially. In fact the existing schools have struggled to cater for those requiring places in recent years. Temporary, prefabricated wooden buildings have gradually been replaced by brick built extensions to Ryders Hayes School but this has not increased capacity significantly. The much older facility in Old Town lane has seen the replacement of the original roof but no new provision has been proposed for future expansion to my knowledge
The amenities at Saint Michael's school have been improved recently but the site does not allow further buildings to be accommodated to enable more pupils to be enrolled and educated at the establishment.
Finally I would add that new housing would be welcome in my view of a plan for long term development around Pelsall were communicated clearly enabling residents to engage in discussions to benefit everyone.
I look forward to being contacted about the Local Plan in due course
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 13740
Received: 05/10/2021
Respondent: Mrs Elaine Ward
York's Bridge (WAH236) [WSA5]
We do not need any housing development in Pelsall, we are a village and do not need any more traffic causing congestion. The farm land needs to stay as it is. We have wildlife on the farmland and that should be left alone. Our green belt should stay. We should not lose our countryside as it is irreversible.
Why not build on brownfield sites, previously developed land, derelict sites and leave green belt alone.
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 13744
Received: 05/10/2021
Respondent: Mrs Irene Smith
York's Bridge (WAG236) [WSA5]
We do not need any more housing development in Pelsall, ours is a small village and we want it kept that way. Not overrun with more housing, cuasing more pollution, more traffic on our roads, as it is our roads are overrun with cars, come parked on either side, Our farmland needs to stay as it is, we have a lot of wild life. Many [Redacted-sensitive information] roam in our green belt land, lets keep it that way. Why not build on brownfield land that is derelict, now. Once previously developed sites. Leave our green belt alone, we need our countryside, if thats gone we could never get it back, and our village will never be the same. Our government say we need more housing, there are thousands of empty houses in out country that are going to rack and ruin, caused by some vandles, do them up at a fraction of the cost.
Object
Draft Black Country Plan
Representation ID: 13794
Received: 09/10/2021
Respondent: Mrs Sarah Jane Collier-Westley
[Site Ref: WSA5]
I strongly object to the building on the green belt of Yorks Bridge Pelsall and Coronation Road/Mob Lane. 6%
I have been a Pelsall resident all my life and in my mid 50s now. I feel Pelsall is far too much over populated and more houses would cause massive disruption on already populated and more houses would cause massive disruption on already populated area,
The loss of green belt will have huge consequences on wild life who have already loss a massive amount of their habitat.
You should be looking at other means other than green belt. I think you have attached green belt areas has a a quick and easy fix.
Which is environmently wrongly!!!