Object

Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020

Representation ID: 10588

Received: 08/11/2020

Respondent: Mr Ian English

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

1. This "representation" task appears specifically designed to be difficult, if not impossible, for residents/voters to access.
2. This appears to be the only (intentionally hidden?) reference to relocating the Moat Lane depot and the Household Waste Recycling Centre to Damson Parkway.
3. The overall plan already includes significant residential growth in this local area. Perhaps undesirable, but necessary. As for moving a waste recycling centre so close to an increasingly densely populated residential area, already suffering traffic challenges, this seems ill-advised.
4. Surely for such an activity, a brownfield site would be most suitable.

Change suggested by respondent:

The need to relocate the Moat Lane depot is recognised, as is the need to relocate the household waste recycling centre. However, unless the Damson Lane/(expanded) Damson Parkway/Damsonwood residential area is to become gridlocked by traffic trying to access this centre, and littered with "spill" waste and fly-tipping by those denied access to or disenclined to use the proposed HWRC (the latter already a problem in Lugtrout Lane/Field Lane) - this is simply the wrong place to put it. It needs to be relocated further away from a residential area with higher capacity road access (as there is now from the A45). The existing proposal forces residents in the north to cross the A45 and those in the south to travel through the town centre - with everyone converging on Damson Parkway. It's simply an ill-conceived idea. This section needs removing from the proposed plan completely with a rethink undertaken.

Full text:

1. This "representation" task appears specifically designed to be difficult, if not impossible, for residents/voters to access.
2. This appears to be the only (intentionally hidden?) reference to relocating the Moat Lane depot and the Household Waste Recycling Centre to Damson Parkway.
3. The overall plan already includes significant residential growth in this local area. Perhaps undesirable, but necessary. As for moving a waste recycling centre so close to an increasingly densely populated residential area, already suffering traffic challenges, this seems ill-advised.
4. Surely for such an activity, a brownfield site would be most suitable.