Brandhall Golf Course
THE ONLY NON-TOXIC GROUND LEFT - AND WE ARE KEEPING IT THAT WAY
To the world, Brandhall Golf Course is a pathetic piece of land that doesn't deserve the same kind of publicity, attention and protection as the Amazon Rainforest? We disagree.
Thanks For The Invite
Dear Sad-Unwell Council
(and your cabinet of environmental destroyers, anti-COP26 personnel, animal-killers, welfare killers, habitat takers and haters),
We would like to thank you for not inviting us to take part in your public consultation on the proposed Brandhall “Village”, that you would love to be built upon Brandhall Golf Course.
However, being unlike you, it is within our nature to ensure that everything is included in our project, and therefore we would like to invite you and all of your creatures to a meeting with us, the people, to discuss The Hive Effect & The Queens Highway and all of its associated issues, including you.
We totally understand your desires to isolate us and ignore us, but remember that You are OUR council, and we are NOT your people, so please find it within yourselves to join us, and provide 'council'.
There is strength in numbers, but if you would rather go on your perilous journey alone then that is fine by us. We are dedicated to the cause, and we know that we will reach our destination, whether you do or not.
In the meantime, cheer yourselves up and take a look around our website, which at this moment in time, is dedicated totally to you!
Don't forget to check back for daily updates.
Lots Of Love Always,
The Hive Effect
VILLAGE?
village
village
[ˈvɪlɪdʒ]
NOUN
NOUN
a group of houses and associated buildings, larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town, situated in a rural area.
"pretty fishing villages" ·
a self-contained district or community within a town or city, regarded as having features characteristic of village life.
"the Olympic village"
VILLAGE IDIOTS
Even the terminology used to sell the idea to the public is deceiving. Does the area look like a village, or does it look like an estate? Actually, 2 estates plus another larger estate to be built on the old school site.
This is not building out of necessity
This is building for moneys sake and mindless stupidity
Affordable Social Housing
Does building "a village" on top of virgin soil, with ancient rock formations, a river and ancient woodland sound like Social Housing or Affordable housing? Or does it sound like expensive Private Housing?
Who can afford to raise an average mortgage of £138,000 when as of January 2021, the average house price in the UK is £249,309, and the index stands at 130.76? Property prices have risen by 7.5% compared to the previous year.
PRIVATE LANDLORDS AND INVESTORS
Social Housing Crisis
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The UK faces a desperate housing crisis. We need to build at least 340,000 homes per year
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of those, at least 150,000 need to be good quality social rented homes.
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“this acute shortage of housing, particularly social housing and genuinely affordable housing has led to spiralling rents and house prices across the country.
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Many young people and families on low to middle incomes struggle to afford to rent or buy a decent home”
600,000 Empty Homes
More than 600,000 homes across England are currently vacant, with a third empty for six months or more, government figures show.
Official figures obtained by Attic Self Storage revealed the number of vacant properties has increased over the last few years to a 605,891 high. At the same time, homelessness has also increased with the latest government figures showing more than 4,700 people are sleeping rough on any given night in England.
SAD-UNWELL SOLUTION 1
TO REMOVE A PUBLIC PARK IN SMETHWICK AN BUILD A SWIMMING POOL!
(THE SWIMMING POOL CRISIS IS SUDDENLY MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE HOUSING CRISIS?)
OR IS IT SIMPLY THAT THERE ARE SO MANY GREEN SPACES ON THE NORTH-SIDE OF THE A4123 THAT THEY CAN GIVE ONE AWAY?
SAD-UNWELL SOLUTION 2
TO BUILD OVER A GOLF COURSE THAT DOESN'T HIDE OUR VILE TOXIC PAST UNDER IT?
TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THEIR PREVIOUS WORKS OF ART IN OUR AREAS.
HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS IN OUR AREAS
THOUSANDS OF HOUSES, NO PARKS, NO INFRASTRUCTURE, NO INVESTMENT
SOME HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS
HERE IS A SMALL NUMBER OF THE HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN BUILT ON OUR DIABOLICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, WITH NO INVESTMENT IN IT, OR ITS PEOPLES.
TOXIC SAD-UNWELL
RETAIL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING DISASTERS
DOZENS OF HUGE RETAIL GIANTS NO INFRASTRUCTURE NOT EVEN A PARK BENCH
SOME COMMECRCIAL DEVELOPMENTS
HERE IS A SMALL NUMBER OF THE RETAIL, COMMERCIAL AND LEISURE DEVELOPMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN BUILT ON OUR DIABOLICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, WITH NO INVESTMENT IN IT, OR ITS PEOPLES.
TOXIC SANDUNWELL
SAD-UNWELL SOLUTION 3
TAKE LION FARM FIELDS AWAY FROM US AND BUILD HIGH END RETAIL UNITS!
THE ONLY SPACE WE HAVE EVER HAD, THE ONLY SPACE WE HAVE GOT.
SO RETAIL IS ALSO MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE HOUSING CRISIS?
INFRASTRUCTURE?
WITH ALL OF THE PRIVATE DEVELOPMENTS, WHERE IS THE INVESTMENT? WEST BROMWICH? OLDBURY TOWN?
CAUSEWAY GREEN
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE HERE TO ACCOMODATE THE EXTRA TRAFFIC FROM THE NEW HOUSING ESTATES, THE NEW RETAIL ESTATES AND THE NEW COMMERCIAL ESTATES
HELLO... CRISIS
WE HAVE A GLOBAL CRISIS, AN UNPRECEDENTED ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER, A GLOBAL PANDEMIC, A FUEL CRISIS, A FOOD CRISIS, A TOXIC WASTE CRISIS, A POLITICAL CRISIS, A SOON-TO-BE HEATING CRISIS, AND UNPARALLELLED AMOUNTS OF PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING FROM MENTAL ANXIETY, STRESS AND DEPRESSION BECAUSE LIFE HAS CONSUMED THEM.
PARK?
PLAYING AROUND
The slither in the middle with the brook in it. “It is as big as 7 football pitches”! - It’s that small.
IT NOW FLOODS SEVERELY BECAUSE OF YOUR REPEATED INTERVENTION!
Funny people. Do you think we are all clowns?
WE HAVE A LARGE PARK. THANK YOU
SO KEEP YOUR THIEVING RED HANDS OFF IT
37 HECTACRES OF PRISTINE GREEN SPACE
A GROWING HABITAT
BRANDHALL GOLF COURSE is home for:
A Bat habitat,
Newts,(all the frogs are dead)
40+ varieties of birds, including buzzards, kestrels, peregrine falcons, hawk finches, and Black Redstarts have been seen here.
Foxes, Rabbits (now dead), Squirrels
Hedgehogs, Dragonflies (now dead) and Freshwater Shrimp
Funga including: citrine waxcaps, bearded tooth fungus, brown roll-rim, fly agaric, corals, clubs and other grass fungus
PYLONS & M5 MOTORWAY
WHAT A JOKE
The Strip OF SO-CALLED 'GREEN SPACE' along the side of the M5 motorway and underneath the electric grid pylons!
The “park” will be here because there are pylons overhead and a Motorway next to it. Need we say any more? How stupid and dumb do you think we are? What use is this pathetic strip of land to man or beast?
It will also be the new home for our children if a school was built here too. How? stupid? How greedy?
IT'S PLAIN TO SEE!
THAT IT FLOODS HERE NOW
The “park” will be here because you cannot build here. It floods.
It never used to flood, and this change is not because of climate or geological changes, but it is because Sad-unwell Council sold the College ground downstream on Brook Road to a major building developer, who experienced flooding during the development.
The solution?
The solution to the problem (courtesy of Sad-Unwell) was to construct a huge retaining bank in the golf course, that now makes the golf course flood and it poses a random danger to the public when it does!
SANDUNWELLS OTHER PARKS
NOT A PENNY SPENT. YOU WOULDN'T EVEN 'SPEND A PENNY' HERE, WOULD YOU?
WE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO ASK
IF YOU WOULD LET YOUR CHILDREN PLAY HERE
SAD-UNWELL SOLUTION 4
KILL A PARK. BUILD A HOUSING ESTATE. BUILD TWO. BUILD A SCHOOL. LEAVE A FLOOD ZONE. CALL IT A PARK.
KNOCK DOWN A SCHOOL, BUILD A THIRD HOUSING ESTATE. UPHOLD NEGELECT. MAINTAIN IGNORANCE. CALL IT A COUNCIL.
Local Park Walking Time
THESE ARE THE WALKING TIMES AND DISTANCES (FOR THE AVERAGE ADULT) TO OUR 'LOCAL ' PARKS, IF BRANDHALL GOLF COURSE IS DEVELOPED
STARTING FROM FAIRWAY ROAD, B68 THE WALKING TIMES AND DISTANCES ACCORDING TO GOOGLE MAPS IS:
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BARNFORD PARK - 1.0 MILES - 23 MINUTES WALK
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LANGLEY PARK - 1.2 MILES - 27 MINUTES WALK
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BRITANNIA PARK - 1.6 MILES - 35 MINUTES WALK
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WARLEY WOODS - 1.9MILES - 42 MINUTES WALK
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BURY HILL PARK - 2.2 MILES - 49 MINUTES WALK
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HADEN HILL PARK - 3.0 MILES - 1HOUR 5 MINUTES WALK
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WARRENS HALL PARK - 3.0 MILES - 1HOUR 6 MINUTES WALK
HELLO... CRISIS
WE HAVE A GLOBAL CRISIS, AN UNPRECEDENTED ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER, A GLOBAL PANDEMIC, A FUEL CRISIS, A FOOD CRISIS, A TOXIC WASTE CRISIS, A POLITICAL CRISIS, A SOON-TO-BE HEATING CRISIS, AND UNPARALLELLED AMOUNTS OF PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING FROM MENTAL ANXIETY, STRESS AND DEPRESSION BECAUSE LIFE HAS CONSUMED THEM.
SCHOOL?
school
school
[skuːl]
NOUN
an institution for educating children:
"Ryder's children did not go to school at all" ·
synonyms:
educational institution · centre of learning · academy · college · alma mater · phrontistery
any institution at which instruction is given in a particular discipline:
"a dancing school"
a group of people, particularly writers, artists, or philosophers, sharing similar ideas or methods:
"the Frankfurt school of critical theory"
THERE IS A BETTER WAY
TO CO-EXIST, TO EVOLVE, TO THRIVE... AND TO BUILD A SCHOOL
THIS IS WHERE THE "NATURE GARDEN" WILL BE.
IT IS WORSE THAN THE EXISTING SITE
THIS IS NOT GOOD FOR HEALTH
IT IS WORSE THAN THE EXISTING SITE
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE OLD SCHOOL?
ANOTHER HOUSING ESTATE. IT IS WORSE THAN THE EXISTING SITE
THERE ARE BETTER WAYS OF BUILDING
IF WE THINK FOR TODAY AND FOR THE FUTURE
GROWING HEALTHY CHILDREN
Charlton Manor, a large inner-city primary in south-east London, grows figs, oranges, tomatoes, kiwis and grapes. They also have allotment space at nearby farm, where they grow what is referred to as “abundant food” such as potatoes and rhubarb for the school canteen.
There are chickens and beehives (with fully trained beekeeper pupils) and the school has a campaigns team made up of year 5 and 6 pupils who raise awareness about healthy diets.
“Charlton is a brilliant example of a school bringing together gardening and healthy eating,” says Collins. “With vision and a bit of dedication, any school can get growing.”
1ST ZERO CARBON SCHOOL
Ashmount Primary School in Islington, London, is the UK’s first zero carbon in use school. The scheme is zero carbon thanks to combined use of Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant and a 495kW biomass boiler, housed in the Energy Centre. Base heating is provided by CHP and biomass with CHP also meeting electrical demands of the park lighting.
Excess heat from CHP (70kWe, 104kWth) is delivered off site to neighbouring dwellings thus offsetting the site’s own carbon footprint.
An E-Stack system uses low velocity fans to mix incoming and outgoing air in winter and a path for secure night-time cooling in the summer. Energy savings will be significant over a standard naturally-ventilated solution, saving £1,000 in costs per year.
THERE ARE BETTER WAYS OF REBUILDING
IF WE START WITH COMMON SENSE
THERE ARE BETTER WAYS OF REBUILDING THIS
Everyone Counts
THERE ARE BETTER WAYS OF REBUILDING THIS
No One Should be Silenced
WE NEED BETTER WAYS OF ADDRESSING THIS
Ensuring that All Voices are Heard
SANDUNWELL SOLUTION 5
KNOCK DOWN A SCHOOL. KILL A PARK. BUILD A UNHEALTHY SCHOOL.
GAIN A THIRD HOUSING ESTATE ON THE OLD SCHOOL SITE.
BETTER WAYS
To build a school
A school could be built on the existing site with ease. The site does not flood. It can no longer flood, because Brandhall Golf Course now retains all of the flood water further upstream. Furthermore, the entire length of brook road is a flood catchment basin, so that would have to fill from the sky directly above it, or the manmade dam on the golf course would have to fail.
How about a new eco-school, with a rooftop garden, and re-opening the River Tame water culvert to create a natural space?
WE RECKON THAT IT FLOODS THAT MUCH ON THIS SITE, THAT SAD-UNWELL WILL BUILD AN ENTIRE NEW HOUSING ESTATE THERE FASTER THAN YOU CAN BLINK! Who are these people kidding?
THIS SPACE IS HUGE
INFORMATION WILL BE ADDED AND UPDATED HERE REGULARLY.
IF THERE IS ANYTHING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO ADD, THEN CONTACT US.
THE HIVE EFFECT
BEE SIXTY-EIGHT
BRANDHALL
Welcome to the way it should be.
Food For All
Food. We don't need to go into detail about the global food chain but mentioning the cost, the shortage, and the demand is something that affects us at a local level. The Hive Effect can alleviate some of those problems by making fresh produce available to local people who may never have had access to such produce before.
This IS Food For All - so Join In and dig in!
Next Level Education
For the engineers out there, for the inventors and the problem solvers, we have some projects to whet your appetite too. They are all very hush right now but all will be revealed at our launch. It may turn out that you have an idea that is the best idea ever and you want to shout about it. Contact us by pressing the button below.
Interested Parties
Our ideas have attracted so much attention from local businesses keen to explore our ideas further. These businesses are amongst the best in their fields, and they like what we're doing.
Call back when we launch and all will be revealed.
If you have an idea or you have thought to yourself "why hasn't anyone tried this before", then contact us by pressing the button below to get heard.
There Are Boundaries
The land is triangle in shape with borders to the railway embankment n the NW, a tree-lined border and the River Tame to the NE, and Penncricket Lane is to the South. The railway embankment boundary is protected entirely by an 8ft steel palisade fence. The Penncricket Lane boundary is a 5ft green mesh wire fence with godfather posts and a hawthorn hedge. The boundary to the river tame, has no defined border or fence, however, there is a row of trees/ bushes and shrubs that give an idea of the boundary line.
Help us to save this open space along with other important spaces within our communities by pressing the button below.
