Draft Black Country Plan

Object

Representation ID: 15370

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Wordsley Residents Alliance

Agent: Wordsley Residents Alliance

On behalf of the Wordsley Residents Alliance we are objecting to the following sites being put forward for release of greenbelt status and for the development of future housing or infrastructure projects. Brierley Hill Road was once surrounded by greenbelt, in 1947 horses grazed in fields and cows roamed opposite. By 1970‘s & 80s,the whole of lawnswood housing was built on country estates.
Our Greenbelt disappeared , we then had to venture beyond these houses to be in the country side.
Now in 2021, the greenbelt that surround those houses built in the 60s-80s is under threat. This is forcing our community further and further in to urban area where we were once rural.
Ridge Hill hospital site was built on greenbelt in the 70’s, when they demolished it in 2000’s it was then described as Brownfield, we have the developers Linden Homes push and push their plans so they encroached past the agreed boundary in outline planning permission that was granted, all because the 5 bedroom luxury houses can be secluded from rest of ‘The Leys’ and more desirable &
saleable. This is one example of how our community has been forced to have 109 homes built which are all coming onto a already congested and busy Brierley Hill Road. Anyone who has sat in the traffic jam from the Sampson & Lion to Wordsley High St would tell you that the Ridge Hill Development access should have been from Auckland Drive or at least half of it!
With the houses proposed at Cookley Works, Ridge Hill and the one on Leys Road and Plant Street WITHOUT the ones proposed on Greenbelt our area will be congested and health of our resident will suffer. Dudley Council should be mortified that Wordsley High Street emissions are as high and dangerous as they are. We need to sort out the infrastructure to cope with what we have already.
With this said we now move on to our OBJECTIONS to the BCP We OBJECT to the following
DUH 208 Holbeache Page 371 BCP , Greenbelt. OBJECTION LOSS OF GREENBELT
This would result in a loss of Greenbelt for Dudley Borough, which is supposed to halt urban
sprawl. Another concern is the lack of GP, and hospital appointments. Also School spaces are currently at capacity, this then puts pressure on parents who will be transporting their children further afield, causing excess use of vehicles which is unsustainable and unfair
for residents opposite schools like our community.
As the area is agricultural land this will result in the loss of wildlife habitat. Wildlife is not just what you can see, but the unseen too. Owls rely on those fields to obtain their food, insects and bees will all be impacted.
DUH 211 The Triangle Page 371 BCP , Greenbelt. OBJECTION - LOSS OF GREENBELT
This would result in a loss of Greenbelt for Dudley Borough, which is supposed to halt urban sprawl. Another concern is the lack of GP, and hospital appointments. Also School spaces are currently at capacity, this then puts pressure on parents who will be transporting their children further afield, causing excess use of vehicles which is unsustainable and unfair for residents opposite schools like our community.
Unacceptable again as this land is bordered by South Staffordshire and this will mean no greenbelt buffer between our county boundaries. Dudley has hardly any greenbelt left. We need to preserve this. If there is a shortage of housing - then allow people to go & purchase where there isn’t a shortage. Other counties have plenty of Brownfield land and they should be encouraged to develop... that not first - but always.
These are the last two remaining greenbelt sites in Dudley South which will certainly cause irreversible harm to wildlife and their habitats, cause pressure on our NHS , schools and local services.
We therefor Object to the building on ANY of our greenbelt,we object to the inclusion of any greenbelt in the BCP. There is another way, Building on brownfield should be the BCP priority.
Our MP for Dudley South Mike Wood, Stourbridge MP Suzanne Webb , Dudley North MP Marco Longi,
Halesowen MP James Morris as well as numerous Councillors and Community Groups & Campaigners are
all saying No! , and we are adding our communities voice to that objection.

Object

Representation ID: 15371

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Wordsley Residents Alliance

Agent: Wordsley Residents Alliance

With this said we now move on to our OBJECTIONS to the BCP We OBJECT to the following
DUH 208 Holbeache Page 371 BCP , Greenbelt. OBJECTION LOSS OF GREENBELT
This would result in a loss of Greenbelt for Dudley Borough, which is supposed to halt urban
sprawl. Another concern is the lack of GP, and hospital appointments. Also School spaces are currently at capacity, this then puts pressure on parents who will be transporting their children further afield, causing excess use of vehicles which is unsustainable and unfair
for residents opposite schools like our community.
As the area is agricultural land this will result in the loss of wildlife habitat. Wildlife is not just what you can see, but the unseen too. Owls rely on those fields to obtain their food, insects and bees will all be impacted.

Object

Representation ID: 15373

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Wordsley Residents Alliance

Agent: Wordsley Residents Alliance

DUH 211 The Triangle Page 371 BCP , Greenbelt. OBJECTION - LOSS OF GREENBELT
This would result in a loss of Greenbelt for Dudley Borough, which is supposed to halt urban sprawl. Another concern is the lack of GP, and hospital appointments. Also School spaces are currently at capacity, this then puts pressure on parents who will be transporting their children further afield, causing excess use of vehicles which is unsustainable and unfair for residents opposite schools like our community.
Unacceptable again as this land is bordered by South Staffordshire and this will mean no greenbelt buffer between our county boundaries. Dudley has hardly any greenbelt left. We need to preserve this. If there is a shortage of housing - then allow people to go & purchase where there isn’t a shortage. Other counties have plenty of Brownfield land and they should be encouraged to develop... that not first - but always.
These are the last two remaining greenbelt sites in Dudley South which will certainly cause irreversible harm to wildlife and their habitats, cause pressure on our NHS , schools and local services.