'Our farms are for food security not houses - hands off!' Walsall residents fight plans for 400 homes on green belt land and bid to raise thousands of pounds to oppose scheme
Campaigners against plans to build almost 400 new homes on agricultural land in Walsall have set up an online appeal to offset the cost of fighting it.
Developers Avison Young wants to put up 355 new homes on farmland off Stonnall Road. However, residents from the Lazy Hill area of Aldridge are up in arms over the change in designation of the site from green belt to grey belt status and want the application to be stopped in its tracks.
So far residents have organised a public meeting and set up a £3,000 online appeal to raise awareness about the plans in a bid to raise money to cover the cost of campaign legal fees, banners and posters.
Lazy Hill Road resident Christine Edwards explained: "We are trying to hold on to what we deem to be green belt land and currently producing food and is helping our food security. There are plans for 355 houses for the land behind our homes. Because of the change in government planning policy it is being marketed as grey belt which it isn't at all.
