Dear Brigid and Karen - and copied to Ian Ward
It was a delight to meet you and to have a chat with you both this morning.
You are, of course, right Brigid in making the excellent point about fewer particulates, tyre dust and other toxic matter with trams on rails compared with wheels directly on roads.
It would be wonderful if you both and Ian felt able to take up my offer to show you the 400 metre grass embankment that holds up Dudley No 1 Canal at Merry Hill Shopping Centre. Ian is ultimately responsible for the concreting of the only public open space at Merry Hill. There is still time for the plans to be redrawn if Ian, transport lead for the Combined Authority, asked the MMA to tweak the tram tracks two metres west and to place them on steel stilts above the water of the canal. This would mean maximum room for low energy, eco-housing on both the High Plateau and on 'Daniel's Land', while preserving the public open space and trees. See one official plan below my name and address, at the very foot.
Work has only begun at the Dudley end of the WBHE tram and not at Merry Hill apart from ground investigations.
My landscape enhancement scheme is under the tram tracks and against the iron wall that holds up the High Plateau on its north side. See the plan, at the very foot, below the photos. I would love to show it to you.
This suggestion and my guerrilla gardening are to turn Merry Hell into Merry Heaven and the presence of your good selves and that of Ian would be just that - heaven!
Best wishes and thanks so much for seeing me - as did Ian, at his surgery, some three years ago. My own Dudley councillors don't seem to have surgeries. You three are brilliant!
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