1,000 residents give views on planned new bridge
More than 1,000 Walsall residents gave their views on controversial plans to build a new £3 million bridge over the Essington and Wyrley Canal.
The consultation closed on Friday over the plan to build a new bridge next to the narrow old 1800s one, after a proposal was thrown out by the Secretary of State in 2015 because it could encroach on common land in Pelsall.
Land at Moat Farm pool was identified for the 2015 scheme together with a strip of land to the east of Norton Road, south of the canal.
Now Walsall Council has identified land at High Bridges, Pelsall, for the scheme.
Walsall Council said 1,040 people responded to the consultation and that the information will now be analysed and a report will be produced at the end of the month, ahead of a planning application being submitted next month.
Recommendations were put to cabinet in December 2017 to approve a new pre-application consultation to undertake works to facilitate construction of the new bridge.
Consultation road-show events were held by the council at various locations in Pelsall.
Walsall Council said a start date for construction cannot be 'tightly defined', but that construction of the new bridge would take up to 18 months.
For more information visit https://go.walsall.gov.uk/yorks-bridge
