Draft Black Country Plan

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Representation ID: 15741

Received: 07/10/2021

Respondent: Adams Tours

Site Ref 10131/ SA-0022-WAL
Home Farm Sandhills Walsall Wood WS9 9DJ

Adams Tours operates from Bloxwich, but the nature of our business take us Nationwide - visiting *Drayton Manor Park, *Twycross Zoo, *National Arboritum, To mention 'some' of the destinations we visit in order to access these areas as with as M42 North + South and M1 North, we travel through A452/A461 Junction regularly, I can not begin to imagine the effect of a housing estate of 800 properties could have on the Road Infrastructure.
800 houses - average 2 cars per household potentially 16000 daily vehicle movements - accessing main roads via A461 Sandhills & A452 with its junction with B4152 Lindon Road which is already chaotic!
We operate daily school contracts, visits such as *mentioned above are normally operated between AM + PM school runs, additional traffic delays would risk students standing at schools in the afternoon or in ??
To mitigate this we would need to operate additional vehicles/ drivers therefore increasing our operating costs - which would directly affect our business.
I understand the need for housing - but this proposed site would be disastrous for this area, and surrounding - Traffic already cuts through Gauhangen when Anchor Bridge is backed up - Gauhanger would become a permanent rat run!
Additionally traffic imposed in the A461/A452 area would mean the loss of a useful road network to exit/enter the Northern End of Walsall Borough for any persons needing to travel to/from/ for their work!