Council still in dispute with community groups as work set to start on Wolverhampton nature reserve
Wolverhampton Council is set to go ahead with a project to install 50 barriers at a beauty spot despite objections from a community forum group.
Work to install barriers and fencing at Smestow Valley Local Nature Reserve will start on Monday (January 12), the council said, and is being supported by West Midlands Police's local policing team.
It follows what the council said were "longstanding issues of anti-social behaviour at the site including timber gates and fencing being vandalised, businesses suffering damage and valley users reportedly feeling unsafe".
But members of Smestow Valley Liaison Group and the Tettenhall and District Community Trust (TDCT) claim they have not been consulted properly since an 'information session' in early November - and work had already commenced when it was held.
The two groups launched a petition and called on the council to be compliant with the Tettenhall Neighbourhood Plan policies and methods of consultation, and to be sympathetic to the aesthetic nature of the areas.
