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Representation ID: 14691

Received: 14/12/2020

Respondent: Rainier Developments Limited (School Road Hockley Heath)

Agent: Marrons Planning

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Policy P17 makes no reference to safeguarding land within the Green Belt. There is no reference to any consideration being given to safeguarding land.
It is considered necessary for the Plan to safeguard land in order to meet longer-term development needs. Exceptional circumstances exist in that:
a. the local authority is significantly constrained by Green Belt with opportunities outside it very limited;
b. unmet needs within the Housing Market Area already exist (see representations under the housing requirement and the Council propose to deal with them through the next review of the Plan); and,
c. there are no neighbouring Councils who have expressed a willingness to take any unmet needs arising from Solihull thereby meaning the next review of the Plan will need to release land from the Green Belt.
This Plan should therefore be safeguarding land in order to ensure there is a degree of permanence to the boundaries proposed within this Plan.