The plan needs to recognise the potential for further development along the Birmingham - Stratford rail corridor and to allocate additional land or provide a mechanism for releasing additional land for development along it, including land Tidbury Green, Wythall and Earlswood Area.

The plan fails to consider the reasonable alternative strategy of focusing new development along the Birmingham - Stratford rail corridor and the potential for it to accommodate an additional & strategically significant amount of development in a sustainable way, particularly in particularly in the Tidbury Green, Wythall and Earlswood Area.