Object
Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
Representation ID: 10701
Received: 07/12/2020
Respondent: Mr Phil Barnett
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
Small sites chosen have little benefit to the community in return for the disruption and increase in traffic
Cancel sites with less than 100 houses or look to increase the sites to provide material levy to improve the community
The spacial strategy, in its selection of sites, identified some development in most villages; the release of small sites of under 100 properties has an adverse impact to the community, introduces disruption during construction and does not materially improve the community.
The plan should focus on creating larger sites where infrastructure levy is of size to materially improve the community a development is based;
Adding 100 properties to a large multi thousand development is within the capability of the plan.
This areas with small sites provided options to match large sites but these were rejected on the basis of lack of defensible boundary. This is inconsistent with sites at Knowle, BVP and Balsall Common where large sites have been taken forward.