Object
Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
Representation ID: 10687
Received: 06/12/2020
Respondent: Leighton Jones
Legally compliant? No
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? No
The Master Plans are sorely lacking in vital detail; provision of public transport is patchy at best, so car usage would nevitably increase.
The Master plans should have much more detail to justify the proposals and to demonstrate that they would be deliverable.
A full transport assessment should be published, with detailed proposals for dealing with the impact of the proposed developments
The so-called Master plans are nothing of the sort. They show housing density proposals, but no argument for them. They also identify NO factors that would need to be taken into account if/when a detailed plan is being considered, such as housing mix, the sizes of gardens, streets, amount of parking, requirements for refuse bin storage and a host of other detailed items that go to make a development one that could be considered acceptable.
The area is NOT well served by public transport. The only train station is in Dorridge and is almost inaccessible by public transport, even from Knowle the public transport is patchy and non-existent from the Hampton Road development and only partly from the Arden Triangle. The transport assessment of the impact of the developments is non-existent. A bare statement that the Hampton Rd/High St junction would not need attention is farcical.