Parmjit is included to represent my Halesowen MP, Alex Ballinger
Simon is the member for Highways who owes me because I don't think I have ever had any kind of communication from him - ever! Am I wrong, Simon?
Dear councillors - and could each of you please respond, rather than each thinking someone else will! It is very rare to get any replies, without my having to attend committee meetings - a real bind when I have to get the self-powered bike out and cycle five miles up to the top of the hill when I'm 78 years ancient!
In this decade, Halesowen councillors and our MP, Alex could be central in the fight to mitigate and adapt to the Climate Emergency which Dudley Council declared in 2020 and national government in 2019.
In either the 1990s or the 00s, the national highway authority at the time, did the most magnificent and extensive nature recovery programme on the central reservation of Manor Way that there has ever been on that section of road. However, it was soon partly destroyed by the major carriageway reconstruction programme carried out by national highways. It is now Dudley's responsibility. Who is the Cabinet lead, please? Is it Simon Phipps - copied in here?
There did remain the thick section of trees, shrubs and plants opposite the new Maybank housing development. It was the same further east between Manor Lane traffic lights and Lapal Lane South where the planting was clear felled to make way for the carriageway works.
After many years of writing to the authorities asking for the reinstatement of the earlier scheme, I was eventually rewarded by the planting of the cherry trees where, previously there had been a thick and extensive woodland of trees and shrubs - exactly like what remains opposite Maybank. The cherry tree planting was NOT full reinstatement which the authorities should have carried out after the carriageway reconstruction.
However, they still have the opportunity to act positively and constructively in the international efforts to slow Climate breakdown.
I would like each of you to write an email to Dudley Council asking for the reinstatement of the nature recovery programme that they have shown is possible, practical and, was once done by national highways decades ago. Could you please copy me in to the email you write.
Earlier this year, I met with Cllr Tom Russon on site at Lapal Lane South who wanted to pursue the suggestions we both agreed then for the 5G site. I wonder if we might all meet at the 5G triangle site on the corner of Lapal Lane South and Manor Way, please? I would like to suggest a Sunday morning at 9 am when there is the least amount of traffic and we can talk more easily. Can you make this Sunday, 7 June at 9 am?
I will be there, anyway in eager anticipation to see who turns up! There is room to park on a Sunday morning and, then, it is safer, too. Please impress me with your zeal! I will cycle from home.
Best wishes and thanks for all your help and interest.
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