Well, we seem to have been here before and are going around in circles. 🙄 It is now becoming as farcical as an episode of Allo Allo.
Just a quick recap. The Black Country Core Strategy set out to define housing/employment /green space provision for the region. This then became The Black Country Plan. That was then pulled when Dudley council through a wobbly. Local authorities then produced their own plan, including the Sandwell Local Plan, of which the examination has just finished and the inspector appointed by The Secretary of State is now mulling over.
Despite this, Richard Parker has now via the combined authority appeared to present another new chapter, and it is difficult to see at present if this supercedes the local plans or how it fits into that strategy, or if this is just the original Black Country Core Strategy to include bankrupt Birmingham and Coventry?
So all hail the “Spatial development strategy” (SDS).
This latest con job, and we will come to it, is just another example of what I call “The theft model”
Here we have three wheels, all dependent on one another and cyclical in that they last around 25-30 years before the exercise is reused and a new generation is gaslit again by the same political propaganda that The Combined Authority is using here. Before this we saw the Black Country Development Corporation do the same thing, and before that the creation of the municipal boroughs in the 1970’s.
Generation is used to prop up business- the interests of the political class where they invest all of their money. The worst type of politician, which is most of them, are from the business sector. They gamble high stakes with your money.
Then the part they are most silent on, the degeneration which is mostly engineered by them to set up Act Three. This could be a stock market crash or other panic where somehow it all goes wrong and areas become “brownfield land”.
The third part is the payoff of the sting, the “regeneration“. We never have explained to us how it all went wrong, or how there came to be “no money left”, but the usual trick between Labour and Conservatives is blame the other. It is this two party state fraud that has seen the creation of the WMCA and the position of mayors- a body and position voted for by no one. There is no difference between Andy Street and Richard Parker.
Vast amounts of public money are falsely claimed to be being returned to portioned areas like “The West Midlands”, and yet this body itself is now taking away money from your council tax for doing fuck all. They even plan to go on strike– well goo on then, and make it permanent because you do nothing and are an example of useless civil servant parasites who are still probably hiding from someone coughing by shirking from home whilst the rest of us in the private sector can justify our jobs.
You can view the new SDS survey below, and this is where all “Rattlechainers” need to act to ensure this latest consultation rejects housing in this area. You have until Friday, 12 December to take part.
Have Your Say Today – West Midlands: Spatial Development Strategy – Commonplace
A “community questionnaire” link is here.
A more important map placing exercise for Sandwell can be viewed HERE. This gives an opportunity to place green dots on a map of Sandwell. Please do if you want to save green space place the dots on Rattlechain lagoon, the land off Macdonald Close and Sheepwash Local Nature Reserve.
You can see that some people have already, and you can also read the comments, but let’s turn this area green to replace every tree that was ripped out! Why is the place important to you as it is? This is an opportunity to engage so please do not waste it when it takes less than a minute!
I am afraid that the jury is out on this latest tasking event, and I do not buy the shpeel below either.
To me this is a political powerplay by the mayor in an attempt to usurp local plans and force the Conservative Walsall, Dudley and Solihull boroughs to give up more so called “green belt” land. This is not such a bad thing in that regard, but the Labour Government’s ludicrous housing targets and direct assault on nature via their Planning and Infrastructure Bill is a wrecking ball for any green space left in Sandwell. WE MUST ENGAGE ON THIS AND EVERY OTHER PHONEY CONSULTATION THEY REGURGITATE IN FRONT OF US, BECAUSE VOTER APATHY AND LOW PARTICIPATION WILL NOT SAVE ANYTHING AND THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE BANKING ON.