Object
Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
Representation ID: 14193
Received: 11/12/2020
Respondent: Berkswell Parish Council
Legally compliant? No
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Welcomes the proposal to build a new primary school in Balsall Common as part of the Plan. However, the phasing of primary school educational places is not consistent with the housing phasing. The educational policy does not make sufficient provision, as required by the NPPF, for primary school provision during phase 1 of the housing allocation.
1. The Trevallion stud site (BC5) should not be allocated to phase 1 of the plan in paragraph 226 but allocated to phase 2.
2. The commitment to a new primary school in paragraph 531 and policy BC1 should provide that construction of the new primary school should commence early in phase 1 of the plan
These actions will leave a theoretical shortage of 30 places during phase 1 of the plan but that is probably within the margin of prediction error.
As an alternative sites BC2 and BC3 could be re-scheduled into the second allocation phasing leaving only site BC5 to be developed in phase 1. That will eliminate the fully projected shortage of primary school places during the first phase of the housing plan by reducing house building in that phase to 200 homes down from a maximum of 565 to 200
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