Green belt must not be sold-off

COULD a public servant in the hierarchy at Walsall Town Hall let me know how I can get the same land deal that Walsall Housing Group (WHG) has obtained in regards to The Ley, at Goscote?

I am prepared to demolish my property and exchange the site for a plot of green belt land, possibly on Pelsall Common or Barr Beacon. I will admit my plot will not be as beautiful as a green belt site, but it will be hidden from view, available to fly-tippers, attractive to travellers and so on, as is the site at the Goscote alternative.

Some 300 structurally sound pre-war housing stock was demolished on the Goscote site, and the community disappeared.

The excuse was "social problems". But that was the landlord's (WHG's) legal responsibility to address, not mass demolition and compulsory purchase orders.

All council housing stock was sold to WHG many years ago and, for me, that's where Walsall Council involvement ends, apart from planning applications, and they should not be allowed to develop green belt land. Who gave Walsall Council the mandate to dispose of The Ley?

WHG has succeeded where the German bombers of the Luftwaffe failed in July 1942.

I look forward to an affirmative reply to my application for a plot on green belt land.

Goscote Born and Bred