Draft Black Country Plan

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Representation ID: 16371

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: D.R. Murray Transport

Site REf:10131/SA-0022/WA:
Home Farm Sandhills Walsall Wood WS9 9DJ

My main depot is in Norton Canes, but I purposely have a satellite depot on Marbrook Industrial Estate for a couple of vehicles that services over work in Birmingham/ Burton-on-Trent areas operating from Maybrook, gives us time advantages and saves drivers hours.
Looking at the proposed development at Sandhills and in fact Queslett Road & Sutton Road options), I can only forsee a repeat of the carnage we have and the traffic problems we have saw following the McArthur Glen Outlet Village and subsequent housing development in Cannock/ Heaton Hayes.
As an area we are becoming traffic locked, the direct effects are the daily operation problems to our business, journey delays, loss of valuable drivers hours, but al the indirect effects of driver recruitment - no -one wants a traffic ridden journey to/from work that is forced upon us be developers.
As an industry we are trying to 'do our bit' with more environmentally friendly vehicles - how emission zones are having to be imposed to combat rising vehicle pollution, how is this *development going to help?
Are we going to see how emissions in the West Midlands suburbs due to there plans in the future?

*More Houses = more cars = more delivery vehicles = direct traffic impact