Object
Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
Representation ID: 14001
Received: 09/12/2020
Respondent: Stephen Dunn
Agent: Sworders
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
The land parcels used in the Green Belt assessment are not sufficiently detailed and do not account for differences within the parcel. The Plan relies on the findings of the Green Belt Assessment to inform the Council’s decision on which areas of land perform less well against the purposes of the Green Belt, and which can be released from Green Belt and allocated for development.
As such, the Plan is not sound because it relies on an assessment of large areas of land, which provides a very blunt analysis and precludes smaller, more suitable sites coming forward.
Further work should be done on the Green Belt assessment to assess smaller parcels of land adjacent to sustainable settlements, to enable land to be released from the Green Belt which does not perform highly against the purposes of the designation.
See attached representations