Object
Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
Representation ID: 14550
Received: 11/12/2020
Respondent: St Philips - Land at Stratford Road, Hockley Heath
Agent: Lichfields
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Para 222: The Plan anticipates the delivery of 961 dwellings through ‘Town Centre Sites’. Solihull Town Centre sites are allocated through site 8 of the Local Plan (2013),
No site-specific allocations are proposed through the DSP in order to deliver the Solihull Town Centre sites. However paragraphs 126-128 (which support Policy P2) confirm that the Illustrative Town Centre Masterplan (2016) indicates 1,500 new homes could be delivered in Solihull Town Centre, with 861 of these expected to be delivered in the plan period.
Whilst the Council’s ambitions to adopt the Masterplan as a Supplementary Planning Document following Local Plan adoption are noted, St Philips questions the specific timing of development coming forward early in the Plan period. Given that such sites have benefitted from housing allocations in the extant Local Plan, the adoption of the Illustrative Town Centre Masterplan SPD will not in itself result in delivery in the early plan period where housing need is most critical.
Crucially, this further substantiates the need for the Council to undertake detailed, site-specific housing trajectory, setting out the anticipated delivery rates of the Town Centre Sites pursuant to Policy P5(1).
A detailed, site-specific housing trajectory is prepared, setting out the anticipated delivery rates of the larger strategic allocations and Town Centre Sites proposed pursuant to Policy P5(1). The anticipated delivery rates for large sites including UK Central Hub should be realistically set to reflect the lead in time for the delivery of projects of this scale.
see attached submission document