Campaigners have pledged to fight plans for 1,300 homes on 284 acres of greenbelt land in Wolverhampton.
The new development near Penn Common would stretch from Colton Hills Community School, the Beacon Centre in Sedgley, The Barley Mow Pub and Penn Golf Club. There have been no formal planning applications made so far, but developers have been invite to submit proposals by Wolverhampton Council. Around 100 people voiced their concerns at a public meeting in nearby Blakenhall hosted by Councillor Paul Birch.
He said: “There are 284 acres and you can build 12 houses on one acre. You do the maths – we are talking about 3,000 houses, although they say themselves only 1,300.”
Stuart Anderson, the prospective Conservative parliamentary candidate for Wolverhampton South West, said: “Once this is gone it cannot be replaced. It is greenfield site, it is beautiful.
"Wolverhampton has enough brownfield sites where we can build. We have got enough spaces to put that amount of houses around Wolverhampton.”
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