Object

Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020

Representation ID: 10815

Received: 12/12/2020

Respondent: Mr Stephen Harrison

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

Site BL1 is in a very high performing green belt area. The sustainability appraisal does not take this into account.
Brownfield sites are not being developed ahead of the green belt which government policy is there to protect.
Why do we need to relocate sports clubs that are well established?
There is substantial wildlife and ancient woodland, this should be protected and not destroyed when there are areas for development that do not involve the demise of life and natural Beauty.
Green belt should mean just that. If we keep moving the goalposts, where will it end?

Change suggested by respondent:

The plan in general for Solihull must be reviewed as a whole, it is important to understand that the world is changing and the answers to providing home quotas cannot be simply solved by building over green belt, supposedly protected land.
Other sites must be considered, ‘brown field sites’ - areas that are in need of regeneration and improvements.
There must be areas that are better served by existing traffic networks , schools and vital facilities.
There are areas that are not in flood planes and that do not require vast infrastructure and sustainable drainage to make them viable.

Full text:

Site BL1 is in a very high performing green belt area. The sustainability appraisal does not take this into account.
Brownfield sites are not being developed ahead of the green belt which government policy is there to protect.
Why do we need to relocate sports clubs that are well established?
There is substantial wildlife and ancient woodland, this should be protected and not destroyed when there are areas for development that do not involve the demise of life and natural Beauty.
Green belt should mean just that. If we keep moving the goalposts, where will it end?