Object
Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
Representation ID: 14300
Received: 14/12/2020
Respondent: Oakmoor (Sharmans Cross Road) Ltd
Agent: Cerda Planning Ltd
Legally compliant? No
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? No
In previous versions of the Local Plan Review site 246 (Sharmans Cross Road) was included as an allocation in the Plan. Representation seeks the sites re-inclusion as an allocated site in order to assist in ensuring the plan delivers certainty and ultimately success as a tool for meeting its housing needs.
A concept master plan is included with the representations which demonstrates how the site could be developed to make best and efficient use of the land available in accordance with the council’s proposed density aspirations for sustainable sites in urban areas. Ia technical Transport note is also included.
On the basis that the council are evidently relying on the Sharmans Cross site to come forwards in order to deliver the plan as currently proposed, it is submitted that in order to provide the requisite levels of certainty for an Inspector to conclude the plan is sound, this site should receive an allocation within the plan (as was the case previously).
In doing so, the council should have regard to the work which Oakmoor have done (enclosed with these representations) to explore how the site could be feasibly developed to provide a greater quantum of development than the plan indicates the site has capacity for. In doing so, it would assist the council in demonstrating its ability to comply with the requirements of Framework paragraph 137 which in part relates to the testing of underutilised non green belt land to ensure that its development is fully optimised.
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