Draft Solihull Local Plan Response - objections and points to be considered

From Mark Taft Dec 2020
44 Langocmb road
Shirley , Solihull
West Midlands B90 2PR


• 5 % of green belt to be built on when there are other options
• Only 3000 housed planed for development on Hs2 Site - Could be treble this number.
• Not only helping to mitigate the road traffic congestion, but also saving valuable green belt, providing breathing space in the Blyth valley areas
• Little housing allowance has been considered in Solihull town Centre, where unwanted office accommodation could be repurposed.
• Little housing allowance has been considered in Chemsley wood area, which is classed as an urban renewal area and has better transport links.
• Site BL3 is designated as green belt of the highest value – why is it being built on?
• Doctors Services in Shirley are already not coping due to the high number of retirement home projects; indirectly causing doctors surgery’s to become unviable business units.
• Roads are already to capacity, making too difficult to get to the M42 for work travel.
• Houses are being built close to the Windmill in Balsall Common, a national monument. The outlook and site should be cherished not trashed by excessive building development.
• Blyth valley area is a known flood plain on mainly clay soil, while little of no recognition of this is given in the plan.
• Solihull should not have extra houses from Birmingham – this has not properly been addressed.
• National government guidelines state that Natural wildlife sites should have interconnecting routes, so why is site BL3, Bl2 allowed to be included.
• Alternate locations such as the Tisbury green golf course should be considered as its nearer the Station, and would allow preservation of the gaps between Shirley , Dickens heath and Cheswick green.
• There seems to be no sustainable assessments contained in the plan.
• On page 180 of the plan, it states it is expecting addition traffic to be feed through Haslucks green road and Bills lane. This is already highly congested already it is difficult to leave the local estates to get to work in the morning.