Object
Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
Representation ID: 14650
Received: 14/12/2020
Respondent: Rainier Developments Limited (Stratford Road Hockley Heath)
Agent: Marrons Planning
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
The Plan should contain strategic policies which set out the overall strategy for development, and therefore the Plan is not sound on this basis.
The absence of a clear Spatial Strategy and indeed settlement hierarchy therefore makes it impossible to understand how the scale and pattern of development is to be delivered within the Plan.
Furthermore, within the evidence base, the Site Selection Topic Paper includes an entirely new set of hierarchy criteria, which has been used to inform the site selection.
The Spatial Strategy should be set out as a strategic policy in the Plan.
The Spatial Strategy should be more clear as to the scale and pattern of development that is intended to be delivered, and how this has informed site selection.
see attached representation form