High Plateau and National Brownfield Institute

ALSO SEE EMAIL below this one.  Mark is a developer whom I met at the National Brownfield Institute on Wednesday.  This is also intended for Dudley Council's regeneration chief, Cllr Simon Phipps for his action, please.

On Wednesday, at the WMCA Board meeting, I first said it was brownfield and then said it must be a green field site with Merry Hill Farm being there until the 1970s!  No-one knows.

It must be a mixture of both but it is still desperately needed for solar powered, highly energy efficient apartments for the most badly housed, including small boat migrants.  ONS, in this month's latest figures show that half a million people left these UK shores but one million arrived.  Therefore, net gain of 504,000 plus the record figure of 40,000 small boat asylum seekers in 2022, alone!

Simon, please get the money from the CA to find out how the ground at High Plateau needs to be prepared for low cost, residential apartments.  And who owns the land?  PLAN HERE:​

 WBHE plan for Merry Hill.jpeg

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​Thanks so much.  Tim​

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Tim Weller <timweller1@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2022 at 21:10
Subject: High Plateau, Merry Hill Shopping Centre
To: Mark Grady <mark.grady@ldl.org.uk>

Hi Mark

Thanks so much for your interest and help this afternoon.

This is the Dudley Council plan of 2020 that shows High Plateau:

 WBHE plan for Merry Hill.jpeg

The Wednesbury to Brierley Hill Metro extension (WBHE) will be completed to Dudley Transport Interchange (new bus station) but the section to Brierley Hill is Phase 2 and is awaiting funding - since July/August of this year.  Perhaps, £100 m for the 400 metre concrete and steel viaduct that lands on top of High Plateau above my guerrilla garden landscape enhancement scheme.  I am trying to save ​my 'garden' and High Plateau, so I do have ulterior motives!

Please would you be so good as to send me one screen shot that could prove to Paul Davis/Davies (and others) that the top one third of the site might well be contaminated from the Round Oak steel works and therefore brownfield.  I mistakenly told him, after first saying it was brownfield, that all of it must be farmed by Merry Hill Farm.  THANKS!

Or, could you ask the WMCA for funding for ground investigation with a view to building solar powered, low cost, highly energy efficient apartments for the most badly housed, including migrants?  This is always my top priority everywhere, to save nature.  The UK is one of the most nature depleted countries, I keep on hearing on Radio 4.

Or, do a FoI request for the conclusions of the ground investigation survey on the canal embankment on the north side of High Plateau (south of Level Street)?

Or would you meet me on site?  And the owner is all important, of course.

Four options.  I'm not expecting everything - just something, please!!