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Representation ID: 5268

Received: 20/12/2022

Respondent: P Woolley

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Site SA3 is currently used for agriculture, which is important for national food security.

Not enough evidence has been gathered to establish how vacant office and retail floorspace can be converted into residential use. Greater incentives should be provided for developers to redevelop these spaces.

There are large areas of brownfield land in the Black Country that could support residential development subject to remediation.

South Staffordshire countryside should not be destroyed until all alternative options have been exhausted.

The creation of a green buffer/park between Essington and site SA3 is not enough. Which authority will take long-term responsibility for it? A gradual, preconceived process of degradation will ensure that houses are built on this space too in the future.

The infrastructure of Essington can not support the increase in traffic volume. Disagree that most traffic will be headed towards Wolverhampton. Increased traffic past the primary school will increase the risk of accidents involving children. There already exists a large volume of traffic through Essington at school travel times, and a reluctance of SSDC or SSC to address this.

The SoS has issued a statement clarifying that greater consideration should be had to the views of local residents. SSDC are giving greater weight to the residents of Wolverhampton rather than their own.