INSIST PUBLIC FORUM BEGINS THE MEETING, PLEASE. AND ATTEND ON 14th!

Don't stand for it - have your say to ban glyphosate, for line of sight mowing only, Daniels Land properly protected from housing and High Plateau used instead.  Link Stourbridge Jct train station to the tram in Dudley town.  And, for Fare-Free Public Transport (I've had it for 15.5 years!)  for everyone throughout the region - to entice instead of enrage motorists.  Use the £15 billions going into 150 miles, 8 lines and 380 tram stops for tram extensions.  The £15 BILLION of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Jan 2020 figure) must be used to fight climate catastrophe, resource shortages and fast deteriorating life support systems.  Not to make them all worse!  Use fast diminishing oil and gas reserves to help the emergency!

Glyphosate banned, mowing of sight lines only and removal of the residential designation on Daniels Land

Hello Ros, Andrew, Cat and Peter - and Democratic Services.  And copied to Leader, Patrick.

I am cancelling my plans for tomorrow morning and will join you at 12.30 pm at Mary Stevens front entrance in Worcester Street.

I want to ask Cat and Andrew if they would support me in asking Cllr Peter Dobb who is the Chair of the important Climate Change Select Committee, if they would join me in asking for a full discussion by all members and then vote of councillors only, to decide on this proposed package of measures, as Dudley Council's first response to their self declared 'Climate Emergency' in 2020.  This suggestion to be the first item on the agenda and incorporated into the 30 mins 'Public Forum' to allow members of the public to speak in the forum.  I'm asking that this be at the next meeting of the Climate Change Select Committee on Thursday 14 September at 6 pm - please.

1. Glyphosate to be banned, as other councils have done but, work to start immediately, on being allowed to use the nature friendly but effective alternative from 2024.
2. Mowing of sight lines only, with roundabouts and the central reservations, as at Manor Way, Halesowen to be allowed to naturally grow carbon capturing wild flowers, shrubs and trees and then managed, as they grow, by officers as they are well able to do.
3. The 'residential development' designation to be immediately removed from Daniels Land, Merry Hill and a professional ecological survey to commence, asap, to determine what level of nature designation it should be.  Plan here:
   
    WBHE plan for Merry Hill.jpeg

I understand that Dudley's Cabinet would have to approve the changes, if passed by the Select Committee councillors.

Best wishes